As many are already well aware, the Ford Oakville Assembly plant in Canada is currently undergoing a major retooling, all to prepare it for production of the Ford Super Duty starting in 2026. Formerly, Oakville built the now-discontinued Ford Edge, as well as the Lincoln Nautilus, which is now produced in China, but soon, it will be churning out Super Duty models – at least some of which could be exported to markets other than the U.S. and Canada. Now, it seems as if the renovations to the Ford Oakville Assembly plant are indeed taking shape.
Recently, the Oakville Beaver got a look at these changes, which involve what is now the framed portion of what will be a massive new stamping plant that spans 26,800 square meters, or nearly 29,000 square feet. It stands on the same spot where a paint building was formerly located before it was demolished, too. Currently, the new stamping building is expected to be completed in 2026, at the very same time the rest of the Ford Oakville Assembly plant retooling has wrapped up.
“In a conventional automotive stamping facility, manufacturing methods involve the transformation of metal blanks into complex automotive components through processes such as blanking, high-pressure stamping with dies, trimming, forming and rigorous quality inspections, often aided by advanced technologies and automation,” Ford stated in a question and answer segment conducted with the city of Oakville recently.
Previously, The Blue Oval revealed that Ford Super Duty production at Oakville will result in an expected output of up to 100,000 units annually. The automaker will invest $3 billion to make this happen, with $2.3 billion of that sum going toward retooling the Oakville plant for Ford Super Duty production, including the installation of both assembly and stamping equipment. This move will also add around 1,800 jobs at the Oakville plant.
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