October 25th, 2010
Ford will invest an incremental $850 million in Michigan between 2011 and 2013 as part of its competitive plan to engineer and manufacture even more fuel-efficient vehicles and fuel-saving technologies in the state Among other projects, Ford will expand manufacturing capabilities for new, fuel-efficient six-speed transmissions. New investments support up to 1,200 new full-time manufacturing [...]
August 4th, 2010
Ford is on pace to bring approximately 1,975 UAW jobs into its U.S. plants from 2008 to 2012, exceeding its commitment in the 2007 UAW-Ford Collective Bargaining Agreement by more than 25 percent Ford is able to bring jobs in house from suppliers inside and outside of the U.S. thanks to collaboration with the UAW [...]
August 2nd, 2010
Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., home of the 2012 Ford Focus, will be Ford’s most flexible high-volume manufacturing facility in the world when production begins More than 80 percent of the body side tooling and equipment in the Michigan Assembly Plant body shop can be programmed to weld the bodies of a variety of [...]