STERLING HEIGHTS, MI- Chrysler Group LLC showed off its new state-of-the-art paint shop Tuesday in Sterling Heights, which is expected to save the automaker a “significant” amount of money.
The all-new 425,000 square-foot paint shop (nearly 898,00 square feet including all three levels) is part of a previously announced $850 million investment by the Auburn Hills-based automaker.
John Powell, Chrysler senior manager of paint facilities, planning and launch, said the new facility is about 85 percent complete and is expected to go online early next year.
“There’s a lot of new innovative technology that we have here that we don’t have anywhere else,” he told media Tuesday during a tour of the three-level facility, which can seal, coat, powder and paint an entire vehicle using advanced robotic systems in about eight hours. “This is definitely going to be our future standard.”