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After announcing the complete closure of their large car plant in Genk, Belgium, which will put around 4,300 employees out of work, Ford has now announced the part-closure of their Dagenham engine plant, as well as a complete closure of the Southampton plant, which currently makes the Transit - its production will be moved to Turkey, at Ford’s Otosan Facility, in Kocaeli.
The total number of jobs to be lost hovers around the 1,400 mark, and apparently the total number of jobs under threat is about 6,200 throughout the whole of Europe, which equates to 13% of their entire workforce on the Old Continent. The Dagenham plant will still employ some 2,000 people, and will begin production of an all-new 2.0-liter diesel engine, already in development at Ford’s Dunton R&D Center, which employs 3,500 on its own.
Ford of Europe CEO, Stephen Odell, stated: “£1.5 billion in UK focusing on designing and engineering engines, while the redundancies in the UK are voluntary, and we’ll endeavor to move people that want to stay round the organization [. . .] Following the consultation process with Genk, the launch of the Mondeo would obviously be pushed back to the end of 2014, with S-MAX and Galaxy, in a refreshed form, following after that."
Still, hope should not be lost, as Ford still plans to introduce some 15 new models in Europe, by 2015, despite predicting huge losses in 2012, of $1.5-billion. Officials claim that the company will begin to turn a profit three years from now, in 2015.
Stoy via autoexpress.co.uk
Ford of Europe CEO, Stephen Odell, stated: “£1.5 billion in UK focusing on designing and engineering engines, while the redundancies in the UK are voluntary, and we’ll endeavor to move people that want to stay round the organization [. . .] Following the consultation process with Genk, the launch of the Mondeo would obviously be pushed back to the end of 2014, with S-MAX and Galaxy, in a refreshed form, following after that."
Still, hope should not be lost, as Ford still plans to introduce some 15 new models in Europe, by 2015, despite predicting huge losses in 2012, of $1.5-billion. Officials claim that the company will begin to turn a profit three years from now, in 2015.
Stoy via autoexpress.co.uk
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