Stamford, Conn.-based Green Earth Technologies Inc. (Pink Sheets: GETG), a manufacturer and marketer of environmentally friendly consumer products, Thursday announced the formation of GET Manufacturing Inc., a Detroit-based subsidiary that will manufacture, package and distribute the company's automotive appearance and performance products.

GET Manufacturing will provide 100 percent of GET’s production needs including final manufacture, logistics, purchasing, bottling, labeling, boxing, quality control and assurance, inventory, distribution, customer support and all EDI functions required to service retailers and distributors.

The plant will use an automated bottling and packaging line with a capacity of 240 units per minute which equates to $1 million in sales per day.

Company spokesman Brian Ruby said the company formed GET Manufacturing with Ron Lipson of Kwik Paint Products, which has an existing 55,000-square-foot plant at 6040 Russell St. in Detroit.

Ruby said the plant will create 125 new jobs and will start production on Green Earth products this week.

Ruby said Green Earth chose Detroit for its manufacturing center because "the skilled labor force in the Detroit area is still the best in North America, second to none, and as a central automotive distribution hub we can distribute to roughly 60 percent of the market within a day's drive."

Earlier this month, Green Earth announced partnerships for source materials and preliminary manufacturing with Inventek Colloidal Cleaners LLC and Bio-Tec Fuel and Chemical LLC. Inventek will support the production of automotive appearance products including car wash and windshield rain repellent. Bio-Tec will support the production of GET’s automotive performance products,  including 2-cycle, automotive and marine motor oils.

Green Earth is a publicly held company (Pink Sheets: GETG.PK).

Ron Lipson, president of GET Manufacturing, said manufacturing trials have been conducted and a support system is in place to produce 18 initial products.

The product will start shipping this week. The company Monday announced its first master distributor, Steel City Products, a full service automotive aftermarket distributor in McKeesport, Pa.