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(listed in alphabetical order)

Cleveland Casting
Brook Park, Ohio (United States)
Total employment: 1,740
Products: Cylinder blocks and heads, crankshafts and bearing heads
Year opened: 1952
Plant size (sq ft): 1,600,000
Site size: 155 acres

Cologne Tool & Die  
Cologne (Germany)
Total employment: 1,144
Products: Stamping dies, fixtures, jigs, soft tooling and die repairs for all Ford vehicles
Year opened: 1963
Plant size (sq ft): 364,025
Site size: 13 acres

Dearborn Diversified Manufacturing Plant/Dearborn Tool and Die
Dearborn, Michigan (United States)
Total employment: 600
Products: Suspension parts, truck axels, stampings, tire and wheels, frames
Year opened: 1946
Plant size (sq ft): 850,000
Site size: 27 acres

Essex Aluminum (Joint venture – 15% Ford/85% Nemak)
Windsor, Ontario (Canada)
Total employment: 940
Products: Cylinder heads
Year opened: 1981
Plant size (sq ft): 500,000
Site size: 53 acres

Geelong Aluminum Casting
Geelong, Victoria (Australia)
Total employment: 110
Products: Rocker covers, intake manifolds, cross members, transmission and structural oil pans
Year opened: 1986
Plant size (sq ft): 2,000,000
Site size: 1 acre
Note: Includes Geelong Stamping

Geelong Iron Casting
Geelong, Victoria (Australia)
Total employment: 184
Products: Castings for Ford Falcon and Territory products
Year opened: 1972
Plant size (sq ft): 190,000
Site size: 20 acres

Leamington Foundry
Leamington, Warwickshire (United Kingdom)
Total employment: 398
Products: Castings including brake drums and discs
Year opened: 1940
Plant size (sq ft): 270,000
Site size: 16 acres

Metcon Casting
Santa Fe Province (Argentina)
Products: Iron castings
Year opened: 1957
Plant size (sq ft): 21,034

Tekfor Cologne GmbH (joint venture – 50% Ford/50% Neumayer)
Cologne (Germany)
Total employment: 352
Products: Steel forgings
Year opened: 2003
Plant size (sq ft): 250,000
Site size: 10 acres

Volvo Car Corporation – Floby
Floby (Sweden)
Products: Connecting rods to all engines produced at Volvo Cars Skövde plant, brake discs to all Volvo cars built at Volvo Cars Torslanda and Gent plants, hub modules to Volvo trucks
Year opened: 1957
Plant size (sq ft): 236,806

Windsor Aluminum (Joint venture – 15% Ford/85% Nemak)
Windsor, Ontario (Canada)
Total employment: 570
Products: 2.5-liter and 3.0-liter V6 cylinder blocks and 3.9-liter V8 cylinder blocks
Year opened: 1992
Plant size (sq ft): 314,000
Site size: 64 acres

Windsor Casting
Windsor, Ontario (Canada)
Total employment: 600
Products: Cylinder blocks and crankshafts
Year opened: 1934
Plant size (sq ft): 500,000
Site size: 22 acres

Woodhaven Forging
Woodhaven, Michigan (United States)
Products: 5.4-liter V8 and 6.8-liter V10 steel crankshafts
Year opened: 1995
Plant size (sq ft): 60,000