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Baltimore Operations

Revised:2012-04-27

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Location:	10301 Philadelphia Road White Marsh, Maryland. 21162-3400 United States
Year Opened:	December 2000
Facility Size:	471,000 sq. ft. including outside and support buildings

Employee Information

Hourly:	173
Salaried:	57
Total:	230
Union Local:	UAW Local 239

Facility Details

About General Motors Baltimore Operations: Highly Green and environmentally friendly, the Baltimore facility is GM's exclusive manufacturer of the two-mode hybrid drivetrain. We continue to be Land fill free, recycling 100% of our waste. The campus is powered in part by a 1.23 megawatt rooftop solar array, generating about 9 percent of its annual energy consumption. Also, a Wildlife Habitat resides on plant property promoting native to Maryland flora and fauna.

Investments

January 2010 - $111 million for building addition and process equipment to build high-volume global rear-drive electric motors, a core technology for hybrids and electric vehicles.
April 2010 - $23.5 million for additional production of vehicle electrification components

Products & Production

A1000 Transmission
2011 CY produced – 72,791 Goes into 2500/3500 Series Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra Full Size Pick-Up Trucks
Hybrid 2-MODE Transmission
2011 CY Produced – 3,402 Goes into Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra HD 2500 & 3500 pickup trucks and the Chevy Tahoe, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade SUVs
6-Speed Torque Converters (SOP 10/14/2010)
2011 CY Produced – 300,952 (equals 2,583 transmissions)
Goes into the Full Size Pickups, Chevrolet Corvette and Camaro

2011 CY Production Total:

2011 CY Production Total (ALL PRODUCTS) – 78,776 Total transmissions built since opening in 2000 – 1,330,340

Awards

November 2011 - GMBO earned the Wildlife Habitat Council certification for creating and enhancing a wildlife habitat on their grounds.
April 2011 – GMBO was named 1st Place Winner in Baltimore Business Journal's Annual Green Business Awards event. The event is held annually to recognize those companies who have gone the extra mile to make the Baltimore Metropolitan area a cleaner, greener environment to live and work in.
July 2010 - General Motors Baltimore Operations was among the winners of the first-annual Maryland Green Registry Leadership Awards, which recognize organizations that have shown a strong commitment to sustainable practices that achieve measureable results.