This plant has carried out the first production four-cylinder engine – manufactured between 19 and known as PENTA – the Zetec engine with four and two liters in the nineties, until the most recent project of Diesel, announced in 2009.” said Gabriel Lopez, President, and CEO of Ford of Mexico. “In 1983 it began operating the Ford Engine Plant in Chihuahua, it has since been a great honor for the Ford family. This investment will allow Ford engines export to USA, Canada, South America and the Asia-Pacific region, thereby supporting the growing line of compact cars the company.Īs a result of these investments, the Ford Engine Plant in Chihuahua will become the largest engine plant in Mexico, reaching a total production of about 1 million units a year. The new engine plant is being built within the premises of the current Ford Engine Plant in Chihuahua where the company will produce a new gasoline engine. Ford officials attended the ceremony together with the Governor of Chihuahua, Cesar Duarte Jaquez and other members of the State Government. Thus, a total of 1,800 jobs will be created, plus additional jobs for the state. Additionally, Ford is investing $ 200 million to expand, also in Chihuahua, existing engine lines I-4 and diesel, bringing 500 new direct jobs will be created. The new engine plant in Chihuahua will generate 1,300 new direct jobs and will be within the current Ford industrial complex in the city, which is home to the production engine lines I-4 and diesel.

In 2015, the automaker leader accomplishes its 90 th year of business success with a ceremony for the new assembly plant in Chihuahua, Mexico. The workers have said they are striking to press demands for payment of obligatory Christmas bonuses and to protest what they have described as corrupt union leadership.Ford of Mexico celebrates its birthday with good news. He said that about two-thirds of the plant's total work force of 3,600 remained on strike and that the company, the third largest in Mexico, was determined to proceed with huge dismissals if the strikers failed to return to work. He said the plant, which ordinarily produces 1,300 engines a day, had been completely shut down by the work stoppage.Ĭuautitlan vehicle production plant on the outskirts of Mexico City has lasted 28 days and there is no end in sight, Mr. The Ford Motor Company threatened today to start laying off thousands of workers in reprisal for crippling strikes at two plants in Mexico, About 1,200 workers walked off their jobs at a Ford engine plant in the northern state of Chihuahua at midnight Wednesday, pressing demands for wage increases, said a company spokesman, Carlos Bandala.

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