11-12-2008, 11:01 PM
POSTED: 1:48 pm EST November 12, 2008
UPDATED: 2:22 pm EST November 12, 2008
DEARBORN, Mich. -- Ford Motor Company has announced they will temporary shutdown at nine North American plants this quarter.
Bloomberg News is reporting the vehicle-assembly factories are in Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky, Ontario and Mexico.
The facilities have about 23,000 production workers.
The Louisville, Ky., factory that builds Explorer sport-utility vehicles and the St. Paul, Minn., plant that makes Rangers are set to be closed all of December.
Two plants in Ontario, one in Oakville and one in St. Thomas will be idled for three weeks in December.
A plant in Kansas City, Mo., will be idled for a total of three weeks during November and December, and a factory in Avon Lake, Ohio, will close for two weeks.
One-week shutdowns are slated at facilities in Flat Rock and Wayne, Mich., and Hermosillo, Mexico.
Factories that are being affected make the Mustang sports car, Econoline vans, Edge and Flex wagons, Lincoln Town Car, Escape and Mariner small SUVs and Fusion sedan.
Also, a truck factory in Louisville will be idled from mid-December until early next year.
Another plant in Wayne will temporarily close at the end of this month to be retooled to make small cars starting in 2010, according to Bloomberg News.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17965031/detail.html?rss=det&psp=news
UPDATED: 2:22 pm EST November 12, 2008
DEARBORN, Mich. -- Ford Motor Company has announced they will temporary shutdown at nine North American plants this quarter.
Bloomberg News is reporting the vehicle-assembly factories are in Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky, Ontario and Mexico.
The facilities have about 23,000 production workers.
The Louisville, Ky., factory that builds Explorer sport-utility vehicles and the St. Paul, Minn., plant that makes Rangers are set to be closed all of December.
Two plants in Ontario, one in Oakville and one in St. Thomas will be idled for three weeks in December.
A plant in Kansas City, Mo., will be idled for a total of three weeks during November and December, and a factory in Avon Lake, Ohio, will close for two weeks.
One-week shutdowns are slated at facilities in Flat Rock and Wayne, Mich., and Hermosillo, Mexico.
Factories that are being affected make the Mustang sports car, Econoline vans, Edge and Flex wagons, Lincoln Town Car, Escape and Mariner small SUVs and Fusion sedan.
Also, a truck factory in Louisville will be idled from mid-December until early next year.
Another plant in Wayne will temporarily close at the end of this month to be retooled to make small cars starting in 2010, according to Bloomberg News.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17965031/detail.html?rss=det&psp=news