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Ford Has Plans for Kentucky Plant

Ford has decided to invest around $600 million into their Louisville Kentucky plant to overhaul the plant. This is great news for those living in the area, as Ford is the major job producer in the state. Right now, the Ford plant employed around 4,000 workers, with this investment, they hope to increase this by 2,900. In the end, Ford is hoping to employ around 6,900 employees in Kentucky. The Ford plant is often thought to be the prestige place to work for those that choose not to go to college after graduating from high school.

The construction on the plant is set to begin this month. One of the biggest additions that Ford is excited about is the addition of a new body shop and these new improvements are supposed to be finished by late 2011, in which the plant will reopen at this time. Ford says that the Kentucky plant will most likely be the most flexible of all the plants that Ford owns, simply because they can make around six different vehicles all at once. 

The Kentucky plant will be a part of the manufacturing of the new Escape. Which Ford has decided to make a prototype of and include it in the Detroit Auto Show that takes place in January. However, not many details have been released concerning the new Escape, however, Ford did say that this was only the first vehicle that would be manufactured in the new Kentucky plant. 

Most people are viewing this as a sign of progress in the economy, and hope that this will be something that many other companies take notice of and follow in the same footsteps. However, outside of the auto industry, the number of jobs are still not increasing as fast as those that are found in the auto industry. One thing is for certain though, Ford is becoming more and more popular with consumers and the unemployed.