Ahmedabad: Factory Sanand of Ford India Limited – a subsidiary of 100% of the Ford Motor Company – everything is arranged to continue to operate until the end of March.
Ford Mouse Company, while announcing the release of India has signaled that a car manufacturing plant in Sanand, Gujarat, will stop production at the end of December while the engine plant will continue to operate.
A corporate spokesman confirmed that while the production of the car would continue only to fulfill existing export orders, the factory would mainly function to produce spare parts for their existing car parts.
“We intend to meet all our order commitments before lifting the factory operation completely.
To achieve this, we have extended the factory operation with a quarter of the other.
While the car will be assembled only for orders that are common, spare parts and components are also produced for our existing customers, What we have promised to support for ten years, “said Kapil Sharma, spokesman for Ford India.
The source at the factory but claims that car manufacturing has stopped and the focus is on making spare parts.
“The target of making 5 lats various types of spare parts has been set by the company.
At this point, the plant operates on the three shifts, with Shift A and B spread over eight hours and Shift C becomes a night shift at around six hours,” said a source.
The company has around 10 unique lakh customers throughout the country.
Ford India has invested Rs 4,000 Crore at its Sanand factory.
However, the company has collected operational losses of around US $ 2 billion in India in the past decade, according to a spokesman for a company.
The decision to close is expected to have an impact on more than 4,000 employees in both plants besides around 150 dealers who operate more than 300 outlets.
“We have decided to maintain our service outlet network around 248 of 253 locations in India,” Sharma was further added.
It is estimated that 1,200 employees including white collars and blue collar workers are expected to be influenced by the closed plants.
“Most workers employed in Ford have filed jobs in several other locations.
However, no one who has not received a confirmed promise,” said Vijay Bapodara, President, Kamdar Kamdar Karnavati Sangh.