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Location:	10301 Philadelphia Rd White Marsh, MD. 21162 United States
Year Opened:	December 2000
Facility Size:	471,000 sq. ft. including outside and support buildings plus 110,500 sq. ft. for the addition of the eMotor building

Employee Information

Hourly:	186
Salaried:	64
Total:	250
Union Local:	UAW Local 239

Facility Details

About General Motors Baltimore Operations: Highly Green and environmentally friendly. 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 our annual energy consumption. Also, a certified 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
April 2010 - $23.5 million for additional production of vehicle electrification components

Products & Production

A1000 Transmission
2012 CY produced – 81,518
Goes into 2500/3500 Series Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra Full Size Pick-Up Trucks
Hybrid 2-MODE Transmission
2012 CY Produced – 4,601
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
2012 CY Produced – 299,759 (equals 2,564 transmissions)
Goes into the Full Size Pickups, Chevrolet Corvette and Camaro

2012 CY Production Total:

2012 CY Production Total (ALL PRODUCTS) – 88,698 Total transmissions built since opening in 2000 – 1,419,038

Awards

June 2012 – GMBO was among the winners of the Maryland Green Registry Leadership Awards. We are the only manufacturing facility that has won it twice since they started the award in 2010. The award recognizes organizations that have shown a strong commitment to sustainable practices that achieve measureable results.
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.