As Ford Authority reported this past August, The Blue Oval is preparing to invest $2 billion in the Louisville Assembly plant, which will be used to perform a major retooling at the facility. That process will involve adding 52,000 additional square feet and ditching the traditional assembly line in favor of a new production process used to build a yet-to-be-revealed mid-size EV pickup starting in 2027. However, Louisville isn't the only Blue Oval plant in that same state receiving a big expansion, as the Ford Kentucky Truck plant will also be getting some upgrades soon, too.
According to the Courier Journal, the Ford Kentucky Truck plant revamp came to light via some recently-published wrecking permits - 23 of them in total - which are centered around single family residential property addresses east of the facility, which builds the larger Ford Super Duty trucks, Ford Expedition SUV, and Lincoln Navigator SUV at the moment. It's currently the only piece of land around the Ford Kentucky Truck plant that isn't utilized by that site or railroads right now, but that's apparently set to change very soon, it seems.
"This expansion of the Kentucky Truck Plant site is another example of Ford’s commitment to American manufacturing," Jess Enoch, a communications director for Ford, confirmed in an email. "It follows our announcement in August of a $2 billion investment in the future of manufacturing at Louisville Assembly Plant."
A Cincinnati, Ohio-based company called Nine Five LLC previously purchased the land, and then consolidated many of the properties in the wrecking permits into a single parcel back in August. The parcels were sold to Ford in September for $41.3 million, though currently, it's unclear if any of those homes are occupied. Regardless, the Ford Kentucky Truck plant most recently received a 1.1-million square-foot expansion back in 2017, following another expansion in 1997. The facility originally opened back in 1969.
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This is good news, but I’m curious what the expansion is for. The Oakville plant is not yet building Super Dutys, so it seems unlikely to be more of what they’re already building.
Kentucky truck along with Ohio assembly currently build the super duty for the American markets. Oakville will be building for the Canadian market is my understanding.
I would imagine it would be for trailer storage.
That makes more sense – logistics, administration, engineering, etc., but not more production. It will be interesting to see what comes next.
Ford does not learn their lesson, their still buiding EV’S. They should Listen to the people and what they want.