Michigan Assembly Plant, formerly known as Michigan Truck Plant, is a Ford Motor Company assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan. The plant employs 1,200 (September 2008), comprises three main buildings with 2,900,000 sq ft (270,000 m2) of factory floor space and is located adjacent to Wayne Stamping & Assembly. The plant began manufacturing the third generation, North American Ford Focus on December 14, 2010.
The plant opened in 1957 and subsequently manufactured station wagon bodies for Wayne Assembly as well as models including the Ford Bronco, Ford F-Series, Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator.
In August 2008, the company said it would invest US$75 million to convert the plant to third generation Ford Focus production, after moving tooling for the Expedition and Navigator to Kentucky Truck Assembly. In the last week of November 2008, truck production ended.
By late 2010, Ford had completed what had become a $550 million renovation, enabling the plant to change production between various models without significant downtime and to produce gas-powered cars as well as battery electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid variations. The renovation also included a 500-kilowatt solar panel system and ten electric vehicle charging stations for recharging electric part-transport trucks running between adjacent facilities.
Current Products:
- Ford Focus (North America), Third Generation, production began December 14, 2010.
Former Products:
- Ford Expedition
- Lincoln Navigator
Famous quotes containing the words assembly and/or plant:
“That man is to be pitied who cannot enjoy social intercourse without eating and drinking. The lowest orders, it is true, cannot imagine a cheerful assembly without the attractions of the table, and this reflection alone should induce all who aim at intellectual culture to endeavor to avoid placing the choicest phases of social life on such a basis.”
—Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)
“I please
To plant some more dew-wet anemones
That they may weep.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)