Upgrade helps Hamburg Ford plant put its stamp on vehicles - Buffalo News
The mammoth machines inside Ford Motor Co. ’s stamping plant in Hamburg churn out vehicle parts, destined for an assembly plant outside Toronto and other Ford factories. Eventually, the parts will give shape to vehicles like the Ford Edge. The F-150 work pumped up the plant’s volume in the aluminum parts segment. And with lower gas prices tempting consumers back to bigger vehicles, like the Edge and the F-150, there’s plenty of work to do at the Hamburg plant. So much work, in fact, that Ford this week cut in half the annual two-week summer vacation. By chopping a week from its summer shutdown at 14 plants that help make its hot-selling sport-utility vehicles and the F-150 pickup, Ford expects to produce an extra 40,000 vehicles. Edge sales jumped by 78 percent in April and rose by 34 percent to a record high in May, with demand so strong that the vehicles were sitting on a dealer’s lot for only 13 days before sale, Ford said. There was just a 26-day supply of F-150s on dealer lots in May, less than half of the 60-day supply that dealers typically have in stock. Source: www.buffalonews.com
