Ford Motor Company has announced plans to assemble F-Series Super Duty pickups at its Oakville assembly plant starting in 2026.
The move to add production of up to 100,000 units of the vehicles to Oakville expands Super Duty production across three plants in North America.
In total, Ford plans to invest around $3 billion to expand Super Duty production, including $2.3 billion to install assembly and integrated stamping operations at Oakville Assembly Complex.
When complete, Oakville Assembly Complex will be a fully flexible plant.
The expansion comes just months after Ford Motor Company announced it would be pushing back the production of electric vehicles at its Oakville plant by two years.
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At the time, the union representing the employees at the plant said the news was “brutal.”
Ford’s plant in Oakville is a critical element of the region’s economy, with more than 3,000 workers employed there.
“Boosting Super Duty assembly will initially secure approximately 1,800 Canadian jobs at Oakville Assembly Complex, 400 more than would initially have been needed to produce the three-row electric vehicle,” Ford Motor Company said in a statement.
After this morning’s announcement, Premier Doug Ford took to social media to applaud the decision, saying it’s “yet another vote of confidence in our province’s incredible workers and our government’s plan to bring back manufacturing to Ontario.”
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