DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday announced more downtime at a number of key assembly plants, including two more weeks for the key F-150 pickup, due to the ongoing semiconductor shortage.
The automaker said the Chicago and Flat Rock, Mich., plants as well as both the F-150 and Transit van sides of its Kansas City, Mo., plant will be down the weeks of April 19 and 26. Production at its plant in Avon Lake, Ohio, will be limited to Super Duty chassis cabs and medium-duty trucks those weeks.
The downtime is in addition to what the company announced last week.
Additionally, Ford said its Kentucky Truck plant in Louisville will be down the weeks of April 26 and May 3 and will remove overtime from May 8 to 31.
The company also plans to temporarily stop production at its Ford Otosan facility in Gölcük, Turkey, from April 19 to June 13. A spokeswoman said that period includes two planned weeks of annual summer shutdown and a national holiday week that were scheduled for later in the year.
