Ford Almussafes Plant to Manufacture 300,000 Units of New Vehicle Annually by Mid-2027: UGT Announces Good News

2024-05-10 11:42:00

Cars are loaded onto a truck at the Ford factory in Almussafes, near Valencia. REUTERS/Heino Kalis.

The IS Ford Almussafe plant (Valencia) will manufacture 300,000 units per year for a new vehicle that will be launched in mid-2027. It is a model that will not be 100% electric, but, “in global terms of workload and employment, it will guarantee higher levels than would be accepted today. . today an electric platform.”

This is what the union announced UGT after the meeting held this Friday with the management of Ford Europe. After the meeting, the union organization described the information received as “good news”, although he clarified that “this does not solve everything” and from now on we must “address the issue of employment”.

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UGT explained that “a world car which will reach the figure of 300,000 units per year.” “It will be a completely new vehicle, and it will be it will launch in mid-2027″, he said.

In the words of Ford’s European vice president, Ciaran Cahill, -quoted by the union-, this is the company’s recognition of Valencia “by everyone promises fulfilled in recent years, and in response to the Electrification Agreementwhich allows us to make a bet on the future of the Valencian plant, despite the change that has taken place in the automotive industry.”

In the opinion of UGT, “this does not solve everything, and now we will have to face the issue of employment“. To that end, it is the local leadership that will celebrate the union next week, they say.

“Despite the difficulties we will still have to overcome, and the situation of uncertainty which we have experienced in recent months, and that was a cause for concern, today we can say that a good news“, they declare from UGT.

This Friday’s meeting is taking place at a time when the Valencian factory has a new one Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE) which will affect more than 2,000 workers for several days.

Discontinued production of the transport van -The Valencian factory now produces only one model, the pla- Added to this is a supply problem in engines and lower demand from the North American market, according to the majority union.

On March 27, the global president of Ford, Jim Farley, promised in a meeting in Dunton (England) that he would assign the production of the Valencian factory multi-energy passenger vehicle, this represents an “adequate” workload for the factory, as reported to UGT.

(Information prepared by Europa Press)