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Ford Motor Drives Another $1 Billion Investment Into Kentucky Truck Plant
Ford said the new facility will replace the existing paint shop and modernize one of its most important manufacturing operations.
- On Thursday, Ford Motor Company announced a $1 billion investment to build a new paint shop at the Kentucky Truck Plant, replacing the facility's existing infrastructure and modernizing one of its most important manufacturing operations.
- Ford's total economic impact in Kentucky exceeds $33 billion, with the company recently committing $2 billion toward its Louisville Assembly Plant and another $2 billion to Ford Energy Systems in Glendale.
- The Kentucky Truck Plant, which employs more than 8,900 workers, serves as Ford's largest and highest-revenue facility; the new shop will feature technology to "deliver cleaner and more efficient paint quality."
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy expressed "profound concern" regarding Ford's ties to Chinese companies two days before the announcement, though the automaker rejected the criticism as a "wrongheaded attempt to capture headlines."
- Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg welcomed the expansion, with Ford reaffirming it is "investing to ensure that relationship remains strong for generations to come" despite ongoing scrutiny from Congress.
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Ford Puts $1 Billion Into New Kentucky Truck Plant Paint Shop
The Blue Oval is putting no fewer than $1 billion into a brand-new paint shop at the Kentucky Truck Plant, adding yet another major capital project to the Louisville operation that builds some of the automaker's most profitable vehicles. In addition to Super Duty trucks, said facility is also tasked with producing the F-150-derived Expedition and Lincoln Navigator. Construction of the state-of-the-art paint shop is expected to break ... (continu…
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