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This C-frame structure is made by STANLEY Engineered Fastening.

STANLEY Engineered Fasten-ing (SEF), a Chesterfield-baseddivision of Black & Decker thatspecializes in engineered fasten-ing technologies, is adding to itsindustry-leading suite of holisticlightweighting systems, saidStanley spokesman Dick Pacini.

In addition to its broad portfo-lio of fastening solutions, such asstud-welding systems (SWS) andplastic fasteners, SEF is nowtranslating its next-generationself-pierce rivets (SPRs) to theNorth American market for thefirst time, Pacini said.

SEF provides system solutionsto lightweighting challenges, in-cluding the assembly of alu-minum body panels, which can’tbe joined by traditional weldingtechniques.

Demand, Pacini said, for SPRs,which already are well-estab-lished in Europe, is on the rise inNorth America as automakers in-creasingly adopt materials such

as aluminum, which is forecastto grow in the North Americanautomotive industry. Accordingto the Ducker Worldwide “2015North American Light VehicleAluminum Content Study,” withinthe next decade aluminum sheetfor light vehicle body and clo-sure parts will grow from lessthan 200 million pounds in 2012to nearly 4 billion pounds.

Within the same timeframe,every leading automaker is ex-pected to have an aluminumbody program in place, accord-ing to the study.

SEF is working with severalmajor North American automak-ers interested in SPRs to help in-tegrate lightweight alternativematerials, such as aluminum andcarbon fiber, into their vehicleplatforms.

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Auburn Hills is now home tothe world headquarters of theautomotive supplier Nexteer.

The company got its start inSaginaw and was a part of Delphiin 2009 when Delphi’s globalsteering operations were sold toGM and renamed Nexteer Auto-motive. In 2010 GM sold NexteerAutomotive to China-based Pacif-ic Century Motors.

Nexteer spokeswoman DawnMcDonald said that the decisionto move the world headquartersto Auburn Hills from Saginawwas made to move the companycloser to the action. Now Nexteeris located in the heart of globalautomotive industry and closerto the company’s customers.

And by moving to a new build-ing, Nexteer also had the oppor-tunity to create a state-of-the -artheadquarters that “combines thebest of Motown and Silicon Val-ley” to create a vibe that resultsin the kind of friendly workplacethat people want to spend timein, McDonald said.

This emphasis on the modernbegins when people walk in thefront door, McDonald said. Thenew headquarters is 52,000square feet spread around twofloors. The lobby features digitalscreens that display differentmessages and illuminate theroom. Currently 150 people workthere, but the building has beendesigned to hold up to 200.

The new headquarters also in-cludes a cafeteria with digitalscreens on the walls. Thesescreens display a mix of compa-ny information and news as wellas local traffic and weather con-ditions. They are interactive soit’s possible for people to touchthem and access information

about the company and even en-gage in social media.

“We will have an extended so-cial media presence,” McDonaldsaid. “It will be spread acrossseveral different media plat-forms. It encourages employeesand our customers to get in-volved in the brand in a more ac-tive way.”

McDonald said that Nexteerhasn’t abandoned Saginaw. Man-ufacturing will still take placethere and the offices will becomea global tech center and the com-pany’s North American divisionoffices.

The headquarters will hold thefinance, purchasing, legal and hu-man resources departments,among others, McDonald said.Additionally global strategy willbe formulated in Auburn Hills.

Another advantage to buildinga new headquarters, said JamesCollins – IT Infrastructure projectmanager, is that it allows thecompany install the latest com-munications equipment.

Now, Collins said, the main

conference room enjoys techthat makes it possible for peoplein other cities and countries tohave video conferences with theheadquarters or other Nexteerfacilities. The equipment is so so-phisticated that it’s possible forsomeone to write on a white-board in a different site and havewhat’s written projected on awhiteboard in the headquartersconference room.

“We looked for tech that couldcreate a virtual experience sopeople in China and Poland canwork together despite distanceand time differences,” said DaveMitchell, Nexteer chief informa-tion officer.

McDonald said that the newheadquarters also acts as a greatrecruiting tool. Today’s employ-ees want to work in a modernbuilding.

And the new building comes ata time when Nexteer has intro-duced new automotive technolo-gy in automotive markets.

Nexteer Opens its New World Headquarters

Nexteer CEO Guibin Zhao speaks at headquarters opening.

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Sergio Marchionne, Lance Schwartz and Norwood Jewell celebrate Sterling Stamping’s new presses.

by Jim Stickford

Fiat Chrysler celebrated some-thing of a victory lap at the Ster-ling Stamping Plant on Aug. 26,with the unveiling of three newpresses that will help the facilityprovide parts for the Jeep Wran-gler, which will be assembled atthe retooled Toledo North plant.

The three new stamping press-es were announced in July 2015,when the company said it was in-

vest news funds in the facility.The total investment of $166

million investment has broughtthe latest state-of-the-art stamp-ing technology to the 51-year-oldsuburban Detroit facility with theinstallation of two extra-largeHigh Speed Servo Tandem presslines (each 180 inches) and onelarge Servo Progressive pressline. The last new press at Ster-ling Stamping was installed in2000.

On hand to kick off the newpress line was Fiat Chrysler CEOSergio Marchionne. He was intro-duced by Sterling Stamping Plantmanager Lance Schwartz.

“I remember the day Chrysler’sbankruptcy was announced,”Schwartz said. “It was a frighteningtime for all the people who workedhere. We didn’t know if they weregoing to reopen the doors, so it’s

Sterling Stamping Launches New Presses

by Jim Stickford

As the end of summer ap-proaches the GM Student Corpsclass of 2016 was honored onAug. 22 by friends, family and GMexecutives for the hard work thestudents did in improving theirschools and their neighbor-hoods.

The celebration was held inthe VEC building at the GM TechCenter in Warren.

Since 2013, more than 500 highschool students have earned apaycheck while learning real-world work skills and giving backto their communities via the GMStudent Corps. This year’s Stu-dent Corps includes 129 studentsfrom 13 high schools in metroDetroit, Flint and Pontiac.

The program pairs teams of 10high school interns with retiredGM executives and college in-terns to plan and complete com-munity service projects, primari-ly at neighborhood schools andparks.

This summer 60 GM retireesand 13 college interns workedwith students to develop team-work, leadership skills and acommunity service mindset. Theteams work as small start-upsand manage all aspects of theirrestoration, repair and clean-up

projects, from budgeting, plan-ning and problem solving to exe-cution.

The 2016 GM Student Corpsschools are Central CollegiateAcademy, Detroit Public SchoolsCody Campus, East Detroit HighSchool, Flint Southwestern Acad-emy, Hamtramck High School,Harper Woods High School, Hen-ry Ford High School, MadisonHigh School, Melvindale HighSchool, Detroit Public SchoolsOsborn Campus, Pontiac HighSchool, River Rouge High Schooland Van Dyke Lincoln HighSchool.

“This is the fourth year we’vedone this,” said Heidi Magyar, di-rector of Community Outreach –GM. “We are so proud of whatthese students have done. Theywork hard and pick their proj-ects and have a voice in theircommunities.”

The program was first spon-sored by Executive Vice Presi-dent, Global Product Develop-ment, Purchasing and SupplyChain General Motors MarkReuss. It was launched in 2013and has grown, Magyar said.

“This year we didn’t expandthe number of schools that wereinvolved,” Magyar said. “Rather

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great for me to be here today forthis event.”Schwartz said that Fiat

Chrysler is in much better shapenow and that the ability to pro-duce as many Wranglers as themarket demanded was difficultbecause of supply limitations.The new presses at SterlingStamping will take care of thatproblem.Schwartz then introduced Mar-

chionne, who said he was glad tobe at Sterling Stamping. And Mar-chionne said the event gave himthe opportunity to put to rest anidea floated in an article he re-cently had read.“This article said that FCA and

the UAW working closely some-how was bad for the workforce,”Marchionne said. “I want to killthat idea right now. Let’s go backto 2009 and remember thatwhat’s happened here today andover the last seven years is theresult of a whole lot of hard workby a lot of people with a sharedobjective – bringing backChrysler.”Since 2009, Marchionne said,

Fiat Chrysler has invested morethan $8 billion in North Americanand created 25,000 jobs in theUnited States.“This $166 million investment

will bring back Sterling Stampingto where it was in 1985 when itwas the largest stamping plant inthe world. What’s happened hereis evidence of what a bunch ofpeople have done over the lastseven years. None of this wouldhave been possible unless peo-ple from FCA and the UAWworked toward a common set ofobjectives. That was done in a ina united fashion, and not acrossa table.”Marchionne then congratulat-

ed the employees at SterlingStamping saying the investmentin the plant was the result oftheir hard work. He also congrat-ulated them for earning a bronzeaward in World Class Manufac-turing, with a good chance of ear-ing Silver or Gold in the future.Norwood Jewell, UAW vice

president of the FCA Departmentthen spoke, saying the newpresses were part of a commit-tent by Fiat Chrysler. SterlingStamping employees can takepride in the fact that they areworking for one of the largestgrowing companies in NorthAmerica.“Never forget who you are or

where you came from,” Jewellsaid. “If it wasn’t for you andyour ability to work together,there wouldn’t have been this in-vestment in the plant. The futureof Fiat Chrysler is bright as it’sever been and so is your future.This new equipment opens newopportunities for Sterling Stamp-ing to provide parts for the Wran-gler and the Ram 1500, which iscoming to Sterling Assembly.”Once the formal presentation

was over, Marchionne answereda few questions from members ofthe media who were in atten-dance.

The first question was whatwas the situation with MagnetiMarelli, the lighting componentssubsidiary of Fiat Chrysler.Marchionne said that there

have been rumors about the saleof Marelli, but he wasn’t going tocomment. He did note thatMarelli’s strength is in electron-ics and it’s the second largestmaker of automotive lights inthe world. He specifically de-clined to talk of rumors that Sam-sung wanted to buy the compa-ny.Marchionne was then asked

about an SEC investigation overFiat Chrysler’s sales reportingtechniques. He said that thecompany released a report in Ju-ly that talked “ad nauseum”about the issue and that thecompany was collaborating withthe government in its investiga-tion. He also said that there is noone definitive method for report-ing sales in the automotive in-dustry and that Fiat Chrysler hadinherited a reporting model thatChrysler had been using fornearly 40 years.When asked about the upcom-

ing presidential election, Mar-chionne said that didn’t feel itwas appropriate for him to com-ment, but did say that the “worldis a pretty flat place” and thattrade barriers don’t work verywell. He pointed out that Centraland South American countriesthat enacted trade barriers sawno benefits in terms of local in-vestments and that these barri-ers are now coming down.When asked about Fiat

Chrysler’s relationship withGoogle, Marchionne said that asof Aug. 25, the Google peopleseemed to be happy with theprogress the two companieswere making. He said that vehi-cles resulting from the collabora-tion should be hitting the roadnext year and that Fiat Chryslerwill continue to work with othercompanies to develop the tech-nology that consumers are de-manding.

Sterling Stamping’s NewPresses Ready for Work

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MARION, Ind. (AP) – GeneralMotors said Aug. 22 that it plansto spend about $90 million to up-date equipment at an Indianafactory that supplies many of thecompany’s assembly plants.The new equipment for the

Marion Metal Center will startbeing installed this year at thefactory where it has some 1,400workers, company officials said.The project is aimed at im-

proving the production capabili-ty and flexibility of the 2.7 mil-lion-square-foot Marion factorycampus, which dates to the1950s.“This will enable our team to

continue delivering quality toour stamping customersthroughout North America,’’ GMNorth America Manufacturingmanager Dan Hermer said in astatement.The company didn’t announce

any additional jobs for the facto-ry, but Marion Mayor Jess Alum-baugh said the investment is aboost for the city about 50 milesnortheast of Indianapolis.“We are excited to have Gener-

al Motors demonstrate their con-fidence in our community’sbright future,’’ Alumbaugh said.The Marion plant supplies

stampings and sheet metal as-sembly for cars, vans, trucks andSUVs to GM assembly plants inNorth America.United Auto Workers national

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we grew the program in depth,adding programs for studentsthat taught things like financialliteracy. The students got to goto some new places, like Ketter-ing Univeristy. This year justwasn’t about putting downmulch at a school field, it wasabout giving the students workexperience and exposure to thelarger world. Our retirees werevery helpful in teaching the stu-dents about things like that.”

One of the retirees who donat-ed his time this summer was Lar-ry Johnson, who retired from GMseven years ago. His last positionwas as regional manager of Deal-er Development.

“This is my third year being in-volved in the Student Corps,”Johnson said. “This summer Iworked with students from De-troit’s Central High School, and Iwant to say that the studentswere outstanding. I worked withnine fantastic potential leaders. Iam pleased that they were ableto come together and work as ateam. Sometimes high schoolstudents don’t always get along.But they pulled together and de-veloped into a tight little unit.”

Johnson also praised his UDMstudent intern Blake Packer. Hewas a Student Corps graduateand came back as an intern tohelp mentor the class of 2016.

Student Corps participant Lin-da Dickson is starting her senioryear at Detroit Osborn HighSchool’s Math Science Tech(MST) program.

“This was my first year beinginvolved with the StudentCorps,” Dickson said. “It wasvery energizing to see what wecould do and I got to meet newpeople. Osborn is made up ofthree different schools, so it’shard to know everybody. Weweren’t always friends when westarted. I was surpised that wewere able to work together andget the jobs done.”

Kashawn Bonnett is also start-ing his senior year at Osborn andhe is also in the MST program.

“This is the first time I’ve donethis,” Bonnett said. “My biggestsurprise was seeing the overalleffect of what we did had on thelarger community. The work wedid in and around the schoolchanged the way people actedaround the school. I saw stu-dents, on their own, picking uptrash. It energized the studentsand the teachers and they all hada good feeling about the schooland the community.”

Kataira Green is also startingher senior year at Osborn. She isin the college prepatory track.

“This is my first year,” Green

said. “I decided to be a volunteerwhen I heard GM was involved. Isaid to myself ‘I have to be a partof this.’ I didn’t like what we did –I loved it. I like volunteering any-way and being able to give backto the community and add aspark to the school was an hon-or.”

For Matt Ybarra, working forthe Student Corps in 2016 waslike coming home. He first be-came involved in the program asa UDM student intern.

“I was born in California, butmy parents moved us to Ann Ar-bor where I grew up,” Ybarrasaid. “I first started as a studentintern between my sophemoreand junior year in college at Uni-versity of Detroit-Mercy.”

He said he kept with the pro-gram and when he graduatedwas hired by Magyar to help hercoordinate Student Corps 2016.

“This is exciting for me,” Ybar-ra said. “And to be involved as afull-time GM employee in a pro-gram that I grew up with and seethe changes that have beenmade year over year. I got to seethe changes that the studentshave undergone as they havegone through the program. I getto see them become leaders andbring their schools and commu-nities with them.”

Reuss spoke to the retireesand students about their work atthe celebration, praising theirwork.


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The yearly festival will againbe held in Royal Oak, starting onFriday, Sept. 2 and ending onMonday, Sept. 5. Events start at

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Matt Hagan had quite a week-end in the Mopar Express LaneDodge Charger R/T Funny Car atthe NHRA Nationals at BrainerdInternational Raceway. Hagan,racing out of the Don Schumach-er Racing (DSR) pits, blasted to anational record setting run in thefinal round of qualifying on Aug.20 to nab the pole, and on Aug.21, he carried that Mopar mo-mentum all the way to the finalround. The final was the fourthof the year for Hagan and the12th of the season for the Mopar-powered DSR Funny Cars.“We had a great weekend here

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time Funny Car world champ upfor a head-to-head meeting withRobert Hight, and the two put ona good show for the fans as theyleft nearly in sync and were side-by-side down the racetrack. Ulti-mately, though, it was Hagan’sMopar Hemi for the win on akiller 3.869/332.34 that got thenod by five-hundredths of a sec-ond over his challenger’s3.915/321.35.Hagan drew a familiar foe for

the semifinals in DSR teammateRon Capps, who secured therain-delayed Seattle win on Aug.20, qualifying at Brainerd Inter-national Raceway and locked inas the No. 1 seed in the six-raceNHRA Countdown to the Cham-pionship playoffs that will beginfollowing the U.S. Nationals. Thelock-down means Capps willstart the Countdown with a 30-point lead over the second-ranked driver when the champi-onship points are reset followingthe race in Indianapolis.Both drivers were remarkable

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The companies announcedtheir partnership on Aug. 23. It’sanother in a flurry of auto indus-try and tech tie-ups as compa-nies race for self-driving su-premacy.

Delphi and Mobileye plan tobuild a complete autonomousdriving platform that they willsell to automakers around theworld.

They promise to demonstratethe technology at January’s Con-sumer Electronics Show andhave it ready for production in2019.

Delphi already has taken an au-tonomous Audi on a cross-coun-try drive, while Mobileye makessoftware that processes datafrom cameras and other sensors.

The companies didn’t givemany financial details but saidthey would share developmentcosts for a total combined invest-

ment of a few hundred milliondollars.

Mobileye will provide its nextgeneration chip that processessignals from multiple sensors, aswell as software used for real-time mapping.

Delphi will contribute auto-mated driving software algo-rithms and controls for camera,radar and laser sensors.

The partnership is the latestas old-line auto companies com-bine their strengths with tech-nology companies as they try tostay competitive on autonomouscars.

Earlier this month ride-hailingcompany Uber announced apartnership with Volvo and ac-quired a San Francisco startupcalled Otto to work on au-tonomous vehicles. Uber said itplans to test autonomous cars bycarrying passengers in a fewweeks in Pittsburgh, with humanbackup drivers. In January Gen-eral Motors invested $500 millionin Lyft, Uber’s prime competitor,and it bought Cruise Automation,a West Coast autonomous soft-ware company.

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