I-TEAM: GM to announce new ‘positive’ manufacturing project at DMAX Brookville plant Friday

BROOKVILLE — General Motors (GM) is expected to make a manufacturing announcement at the DMAX Brookville plant on Friday.

Representatives for GM, DMAX Brookville, the City of Brookville, and the workers union are expected to be on hand for the “positive plant manufacturing announcement,” according to a statement from the company.

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Details of the announcement have not been made publicly known, but the I-Team learned that the Brookville Planning Commission approved a proposal for a 1.1 million-square-foot expansion of the existing 251,000-square-foot facility.

Documents obtained from Montgomery County Business Services show that the city applied for a $500,000 grant from the county to help with the development costs for work for a project that they called “Project A.” They ended up receiving $350,000 for the project in May.

In the application, city officials wrote, “Project A is considering a location in the City of Brookville to construct a 1.1 million-square-foot building. The project includes the potential relocation of 714 employees from another location in Montgomery County to Brookville. Their current facility is inadequate for current and future manufacturing needs of Project A.”

DMAX Moraine’s website says they have “approximately 800″ employees at their southern Montgomery County facility.

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The I-Team’s John Bedell spent Thursday communicating with over a dozen officials and entities, including GM, about this on Thursday. When he asked about what an expansion like this would mean for the DMAX facility in Moraine, they all either said they didn’t know or declined to answer.

Bedell also reached out to the union for DMAX workers for comment. Their president said the “historic investment and expansion announcement is a testament to the work ethic” of the union’s members at DMAX.

“I could not be prouder,” Carl Kennebrew, IUE-CWA International President, said. “I look forward to what lies ahead as we continue to work together to rebuild our domestic industrial base here in the United States.”

DMAX is a joint venture between GM and Isuzu Motors. It was founded in Moraine in 1999. The Brookville plant opened in 2021

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