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\nFord Louisville Assembly Plant has shut down due to slowing auto sales.<\/p>\n
\nFord Louisville Assembly Plant has shut down due to slowing auto sales.<\/p>\n
The company decided to idle production to compensate for an oversaturation of its Ford Escape and Lincoln MKC SUVs in the market.<\/p>\n
The shutdown means more than 4,000 Ford Louisville Assembly Plant employees will not report to work the weeks of October 17 and October 31.<\/p>\n
Escape sales are up 1 percent through September of this year, compared to a record year in 2015. Escape sales totaled 234,764 vehicles through September, 2016. Lincoln MKC sales are up 3 percent through September of this year with 18,786 vehicles sold.<\/p>\n
Ford is also idling the F-150 factory near Kansas City and two plants in Mexico that make the Fusion sedan and Fiesta subcompact.
\nSource: WAVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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