The Ford Motor Company is planning to close their Geelong assembly plant but is looking for more workers for its Campbellfield facility in Melbourne, Australia. The Geelong assembly plant will be closing this coming 2010 but Ford is planning to manufacture 40,000 new four-cylinder vehicles which are all planned to be sold in the Australian car market as well as in New Zealand and South Africa.
These new cars are planned to go on production in 2011 which is why Ford is looking for more facility workers to work in their Campbellfield facility in Melbourne. In connection with the closure of its Geelong assembly plant, Ford is hoping to acquire all 600 workers for the plant to work on its new facility plant in Melbourne. Tom Gorman, the head person for the facility, is also hoping that these workers could be transported to its Aussie plant. He said, "Employees that are interested in that opportunity, we'll make that available to them."
The US auto manufacturer is still hoping to employ all the 600 workers of the Aussie plant but they still have to decide on this particular matter.
Ford was reported to have been acquiring the Daewoo facility plant in Romania. The failure to sell in the US car market may be one among the reasons why Ford is venturing into other car markets namely China and Europe. Well, at least Ford still has different options aside from its US market.
Last week, the Ford Focus was also reported to sell in Europe. So, this means that the Big Three member will still remain in the market even though they have been noted to have poor sales in the US car market.