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Ford Motor Company continues to help the American worker and our economy as well by investing heavily in their manufacturing facilities in Michigan. The company recently announced that it will spend $773 million to boost manufacturing at several facilities. This investment will upgrade the company?s plants as well as the retention of over 3,000 current hourly jobs, while creating 2,350 new ones. This is all part of Ford?s plan to add 12,000 hourly positions nationwide by 2015.
The biggest investment is going into the company?s Dearborn stamping plant. $305 million will go there to modernize the plant. Improvements include new press lines, a scrap conveyor system, and other new or updated machinery.
The Flat Rock, MI assembly plant will receive $161 million upgrade. This includes new machinery and equipment so that the plant can build the new Ford Fusion. The Flat Rock plant will also be used as an additional production facility.
The new Fusion will soon be built alongside the Taurus at the Flat Rock, MI plant
?The Sterling Axle Plant will get $86 million for machinery. This is to keep up with current axle demand, as well as increases in demand, and future model changes. Van Dyke Transmission will receive $87.7 million, to upgrade machinery and equipment. This is due to expansions for the 6F35 and 6F50 transmissions.
Livonia Transmission gets $74.7 million for machinery and transmission expansion. This will also pay for transmission test equipment. Finally, the Michigan Assembly plant will receive $59.4 million for expansion of it?s stamping press line.
No word yet on when or how applications will be accepted for the new jobs. This expansion is obviously a positive note in these tough economic times. We?re glad to see Ford bringing more jobs home to the USA, and keeping Americans at work.
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