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Ford to move pickup production back to States

Ford Motor Co. will revive its Ohio factory by investing $168 million to move pickup production there from Mexico early in 2015.

By Keith Naughton | Updated on March 07, 2014
This photo provided by Ford Motor Co. shows the final Ford Ranger rolling off the production line at the company's plant in St. Paul, Minn. on Dec. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Ford Motor Co.)

March 7 (Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co., which plans to cease making the Econoline van later this year, will revive the Ohio factory where the vehicle is made by investing $168 million to move pickup production there from Mexico early in 2015.

Production of Ford’s commercial F-650 and F-750 medium-duty pickups will move from a plant in Escobedo, Mexico, to Avon Lake, Ohio. Ford had operated a Mexican-based joint-venture with Navistar International Corp. known as the Blue Diamond Trucking Co. The automaker is cutting those ties to take full control of production, design and engineering of its top-selling F-series pickups, Joe Hinrichs, Ford’s president of the Americas, said in an interview.

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