Ford to boost motor production in Cleveland, retain Avon Lake jobs

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http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2012/02/25/ford-to-boost-motor-production-in-cleveland-retain-avon-lake-jobs/

Filed by Cindy Leise February 25th, 2012 in Top Stories

CLEVELAND — On the eve of the Cleveland Auto Show, Ford Motor Co. announced a third shift will begin in May at the Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1, where the fuel-efficient Ecoboost engine is being built. snip

Ken Czubay, Ford’s U.S. vice president of sales, marketing and service, said Ford employs 7,200 workers in Northeast Ohio and Ford churns $3 billion through the economy.

“We’re going to three crews and will be running around the clock in our machine departments and seven days a week in assembly,” Binger said. “My guess is it’s probably been 20 years since we’ve had that production from these facilities.

Moving production of medium-size trucks to Ohio Assembly will end Ford’s Blue Diamond Truck LLC joint venture between Ford and Navistar International. That joint venture is building the trucks in Mexico.

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1. The foundry at the Cleveland plant is gone, it's odd looking now.

After seeing that building standing there my entire life; I remember when they set the steel framework of that plant.

I can still remember driving by there at night with my family, and seeing the orange glow and the mass of billowing smoke coming from the vented roof openings when they were pouring a melt into engine block sand casts.

Until pollution control devices were installed there, every car Dad owned had the paint finish ruined by the caustic, granular fallout that fell from those clouds onto the cars in the parking lot.


The guys at Brrookpark must have finally realized that Ford wasn't kidding them when they told them Lima was going to get all their work if they didn't shape up....but Brookpark is going to close sooner or later.