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Ford Closes Kentucky Plant for the Week

Amid part shortages and the economy not seeming to get any better, there have been many plants shutting down for days and weeks at a time leaving these workers having to fend for themselves and worry about whether they will have work the following week or not. Ford has announced that they will be closing their Louisville, Kentucky plant for a week starting Monday, April 4. The reasons for the plant closing for a week has to do with the parts that they are not receiving from Japan, as well as other reasons. 

Reasons such as the demand for these trucks and larger SUV's that the Louisville plant produces are just not selling in the current market. Due to gas prices, more and more people are wanting those gas saving small cars. The Louisville plant produces the F250 through F550, Lincoln Navigator and Ford Expedition at the location. It is these kinds of vehicles that are not selling as good as they had hoped. Those that are involved with Ford stated that the time would come later this year when they would have too much production on their hands of vehicles that they could not sell. So all in all, they are stating that this plant was doomed to shut down for quite some time with the economy the way that it is. 

Ford has said that in terms of the effects that Japan is having on their production, they do not seem to have any black or red paint to paint their vehicles, namely their F250 and so forth, Lincoln Navigators and Explorers that require these colors. The plant that produces this metallic paint in Japan was evacuated due to the closeness it has to the nuclear power plant and there was an issue with the plant becoming contaminated. Other automakers also do business with this plant and they too are finding that they are having to limit colors on their vehicles.