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Genk Body & Assembly was a Ford automobile factory in Genk, Belgium, just over an hour to the west of the company's European head office in Cologne, Germany. The site spanned 6,135,630 square feet (140.9 acres). The plant employed approximately 4,300 workers when it closed in 2014.[1]

The plant opened in 1964. The first mainstream car built there was Ford's first front-wheel drive volume model, the Ford Taunus P4. Later on, the plant focused on producing mid-sized family cars including the company's Sierra and Mondeo models.

Models built

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ImageModelYearsNumberImageModelYearsNumber
Ford Taunus P4/12M1963-1966314,270Ford Mondeo II1996-20001,200,069
Ford Taunus P5/17M1965-196613,765Ford Transit VI2000-2004384,238
Ford Transit II/III/IV/V1965-20001,857,635Ford Mondeo III2000-20071,418,515
Ford Taunus P6 12M/15M1966-1970518,602Ford S-MAX I2006-2010235,890
Ford Escort1968-1970258,205Ford Galaxy III2006-2010120,192
Ford Taunus P7/20M1969-197019,534Ford Mondeo IV2007-2010567,582
Ford Taunus1970-19822,695,796Ford Mondeo IVb2010-2014348 825
Ford Sierra I1982-19922,741,713Ford S-MAX Ib2010-2014194 685
Ford Mondeo I1992-19961,362,538Ford Galaxy IIIb2010-2014111 123

Closure

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Ford announced in October 2012 that it was planning to close its Genk plant at the end of 2014 in response to longstanding over-capacity problems in Europe,[2][3] as part of a larger closure plan that will see the manufacturer's European capacity decreased by 20%, with further capacity cuts planned should the company not succeed in returning to higher European sales volumes.[4] The next generation of the Ford Mondeo was assembled, for the European market, at the Valencia plant.

Reports in March 2013 indicated that agreement with the workers' representatives would see Ford paying out an average of €144,000 (at the time equivalent to US$187,500) for each of the 4,000 workers to be laid off. It was noted that this was significantly below the US$202,700 per worker that had been the price reportedly paid by General Motors at the closure in 2010 of their Antwerp facility.[4]

At the end of 2016 it was estimated that the decontamination of the site would cost €11.4 million.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Belgium:Genk Body and Assembly". origin-corporate.ford.com. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Ford Plans to Restructure European Manufacturing Operations". Newspress. 24 October 2012. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Ford confirms plans to close Belgian factory". BBC News. 24 October 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  4. 1 2 "187.500 pro Arbeiter: Ford erkauft sich Werksschließung in Genk". Handelsblatt (in German). 20 March 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  5. ↑ "Sanering sterk vervuilde zones Ford Genk zal 11,4 miljoen euro kosten". Het Belang van Limburg (in Dutch). 31 December 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2017.

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