General Motors announced plans on April 27 to add a manufacturing line at a southern Indiana factory in a $111 million project that is expected to add 245 jobs in the coming years.
Workers at the Bedford factory and area residents were worried a year ago that the plant would close amid GM's restructuring. The factory, which once had more than 1,200 workers, is one of the world's largest aluminum die-casting facilities and now has some 370 employees. The Bedford plant is part of an $890 million investment GM is making at five factories to make more fuel-efficient V-8 engines and preserve or create roughly 1,600 jobs.
