Thursday, January 24, 2013
Genk Protest Ends - Ford Resumes Production
The situation at Ford's plant in Genk, Belgium, where production had been stopped due to workers blocking and cutting the supply of parts, as well as disrupting the plant in other ways. Up until now, they had not built and delivered a car since October 24, when the announcement that the plant would be closing down was made public.
Production should have been restarted earlier this month, but the attempt failed, as the protesters blocked an adjacent supply building.
However, now production has been restarted and this makes Blue Oval officials very happy, according to a company spokesman, Adrian Schmitz, who was quoted by Bloomberg: “We are pleased to be building and shipping vehicles again and are working to get the factory quickly up to full production.”
As a reminder, the Genk plant has a rich tradition, in association with the Ford name, as it is the spiritual home of all Europe-bound large Fords, and currently builds the Mondeo, as well as the S-Max and Galaxy models.
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Ford cars have good designs that turn heads. This is a nice productions and the paint looks nice.
ReplyDeleteThis is great news! In order for Ford to stay competitive with so many foreign car manufacturers, they need to have a strong presence abroad…they can't possibly stay on top of automobile sales with the American market alone. Ford has always offered some of the best looking and most reliable vehicles in the world…not to mention their ability to make it so convenient for owners to receive the best Ford replacement parts and service programs possible. Thanks for the post!
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