Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant
The Ford Motor Company's Kansas City Assembly plant in Claycomo, Missouri is a large automative manufacturing plant, which has been called the largest car manufacturing plant in the United States in terms of units produced. Fortune Magazine noted that in 2004 it was producing 490,000 units a year generating a buzz that it produces "a truck a minute."
The plant is about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of the Kansas City, Missouri city center. Since its opening in 1951, the Ford Claycomo Plant, as many in the Kansas City area call it, has generated thousands of jobs, millions of tax dollars for the otherwise minor suburb, and is the largest tax generator in Clay County, Missouri, most of which fund North Kansas City and Liberty schools.
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