Ford Motor Co. plans to invest $1.1 billion to expand its Kansas City Assembly Plant in Missouri, reports The Detroit News.
The investment will create more than 2,000 jobs to produce a new Transit commercial van and the F-150 at the plant. Of the 2,000 jobs, half will be new hires and 900 will comprise a new third shift, which will start in the third quarter this year.
The other 1,100 workers, who will begin in the fourth quarter, will work on a line that produces Ford’s all-new Transit full-size van in 2014. The Transit is designed to replace Ford’s E-series vans.
Source: The Detroit News
