Ford plans 2-liter engine output in Ohio, report says

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Ford plans 2-liter engine output in Ohio, report says
Automotive News
February 20, 2013
by Craig Trudell and Keith Naughton

DETROIT (Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co. plans to begin making in Ohio a small four-cylinder engine that it builds in Spain, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Ford's move to build the 2-liter engine at its factory in Brook Park, Ohio, eventually will create as many as 750 jobs, said the person, who asked not to be identified ahead of an announcement tomorrow.

The company has been building the engine in Valencia, Spain.

Kristina Adamski, a Ford spokeswoman, declined to comment.

The Valencia plant's 2-liter EcoBoost engines are used in the company's Focus, Explorer, Edge and Fusion models, according to Ford's website.

The Ohio plant produces 3.5-liter V-6 EcoBoost used in the Ford F-150 pickup, according to Ford's website for journalists.

Ford CEO Alan Mulally has helped revive Ford by overhauling the company's product lineup and boosting the fuel efficiency of models such as the Focus compact car.

Ford is hiring in the United States, where auto sales climbed last year by the most since 1984, and retrenching in Europe, where new-vehicle registrations hit a 17-year low in 2012.

"You have to build where the market is," Mike Gammella, president of UAW Local 1250, which represents the Ohio plant's 1,065 hourly workers, said Wednesday in a telephone interview. "We're seeing the outsourcing craze come back around. Outsourcing wasn't all it was cracked up to be."

Ford joins companies including Apple Inc. in reversing shifts in manufacturing to overseas markets because of lower labor costs. Apple last year year pledged to invest in making Mac computers in the United States.

Since 2007, the UAW has agreed to let automakers hire new workers who forgo traditional retiree health care and pensions as well as work for lower wages than more senior employees in exchange for jobs that would have gone to other markets.

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I bet this will include (or even mainly be for) the gen2 2.0EB with in-head exhaust-plumbing ... which should provide 140hp-per-liter
Wonder if it will also build the 2.3 4cyl?
&
Anyone remember where the 2.7/2.9 Nano v6's will be built?
& what about the 1.5 3cyl? ...where's the 1.0 3cyl built now?

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Nice to see more jobs coming back to the USA. Hopefully more jobs for other vehicles/vehicle parts etc will follow.

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found on Ford's facebook

[marcwill]

Ford has publicized promises to start production of a 2-liter, four-cylinder motor at its plant in Brook Park, Ohio. That size Ford engine was formerly only produced in Valencia, Spain, according to the Associated Press. The move will produce up to 750 careers in Ohio, according to an unnamed representative of the automaker. You can visit Ford Motors 2.0L Eco-boost Engine to get more information about the article.