Ford executives will be at the Avon Lake, Ohio, plant today to confirm that workers there will build the next-generation of medium-duty trucks in a production shift from a plant in Mexico.
Joe Hinrichs, Ford president of the Americas, will tell the plant’s 1,600 workers that they will build the all-new 2016 F-650 and F-750 starting early next year, for sale in the spring of 2015. Workers will also get their first look at the new trucks.
Ford is investing $168 million to retool the Cleveland-area plant to add truck production. The medium-duty trucks had been built in Mexico as part of a joint venture between Ford and Navistar International. Ford promised to in-source the work as part of 2011 negotiations with the UAW.
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