Ford to close new Cleveland Aluminum Casting Plant. (North America).On January 11, Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Michigan Dearborn is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in the Detroit metropolitan area and Wayne County, and is the tenth largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, it had a population of 97,775. , announced that the Cleveland Aluminum Casting Plant in Brook Park, Ohio Brook Park is a suburb of Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the city population was 21,218. Geography Brook Park is located at (41.399550, -81.818423)GR1. would be one of four plants to cease operation as part of the "Ford Revitalization Plan." The 210,000-sq-ft aluminum casting facility, which utilizes the precision sand casting Casting is the process of production of objects by pouring molten material into a cavity called a mold which is the negative, or mirror image of the object, and allowing it to cool and solidify. process, produced 7500 aluminum cylinder blocks in 2000, the year the facility opened. It currently employs 100 hourly and 22 salaried workers. It is expected to close in 2003-04. (For more information about the operation, see "Ford Unveils Cleveland Aluminum Casting Plant," p.29-33, September 2000 MODERN CASTING.) Other facilities slated for closing are the Edison Assembly Plant in Edison, NJ., and the Ontario Truck Plant in Oakville, Ontario, by 2004; the St. Louis Assembly St. Louis Assembly is an automobile factory owned by Ford Motor Company in Hazelwood, Missouri. It was idled in 2006 as part of Ford's "Way Forward" plan. Ford Motor Company currently has no plans to reopen their St. Louis Assembly facility. Plant in Hazelwood, Missouri, by a date yet to be determined; and Vulcan Forge in Dearborn, Michigan, as soon as possible. |
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