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Plant Information

• Plant name: Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1
• Location: Brook Park, Ohio
• Employment: 250 (210 hourly; 40 salaried)
• Products: 3.5-liter EcoBoostTM V-6 engine for Ford Flex, Ford Taurus SHO, Lincoln MKS sedan and Lincoln MKT crossover
• Year opened: 1951
• Site size in acres: 93
• Plant size in square feet: 1.6 million
• Product history: More than 35 million engines, including the renowned 351 Cleveland series and 24.3 million engines in the popular 302 and 5.0-liter V-8 family

Manufacturing Upgrades

• In 2004, Ford invested $350 million for plant redesign and installation of an all-new assembly line as well as block, crankshaft and cylinder head machining lines
• An additional $55 million was invested for tooling and equipment upgrades needed to produce the EcoBoost engine, including a flexible powertrain manufacturing system
• A new production database provides a "birth history" for each engine, tracking hundreds of metrics and allowing any quality control issues to be quickly and accurately isolated

May 19, 2009