Brampton Assembly
| Built | 1985 |
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| Location | Brampton, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°45′07″N 79°43′05″W / 43.752°N 79.718°W |
| Industry | Automotive |
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| Employees | 3,795 (3,633 hourly, 162 salaried) on two shifts |
| Area | 2,950,000 sq ft (274,000 m2) |
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Brampton Assembly is a Chrysler automobile factory located at 2000 Williams Parkway East Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Originally built by American Motors Corporation (AMC) for US$260 million, in what was then called Bramalea, Ontario township, the manufacturing plant was specially designed for building the Eagle Premier.
A previous American Motors Corporation facility also known as "Brampton Assembly" plant was located at Kennedy Road/Steeles Avenue, Brampton, ON. It was built and operated by American Motors and then Chrysler from 1961 to 1992. The plant assembled American Motors and Jeep vehicles until it was closed in 1992, sold off for warehouse use, and later torn down and replaced by commercial/retail development including a Lowe's store.
In June 1984, American Motors Corporation (AMC) established an agreement with the governments of Ontario and Canada to build a new assembly plant. Both the national and provincial governments loaned AMC C$100 million each to build the C$764 million facility. The agreement also included a royalty to the governments equal to 1% of the sales price of every vehicle produced at the facility.
The infrastructure builder EllisDon Construction completed the US$260 million (US$599,365,791 in 2017 dollars ) plant and associated buildings. The factory was opened by AMC in 1986 as Bramalea Assembly, a state-of-the-art robotics-based assembly facility with 2,950,000 square feet (274,000 m2) of floor space located on 269 acres (108.9 ha) specifically designed to produce the Eagle Premier.
The production line speed was initially about 400 cars per shift (54 jobs per hour) with only one shift scheduled. There were frequent layoffs at this new factory while AMC's old Brampton plant located at Kennedy Road worked steady producing Jeep Wranglers.
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