Ford stops PH production for 18 days

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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/...uction-18-days

MANILA, Philippines - Ford Group Philippines is suspending production in its Santa Rosa, Laguna, plant for 18 working days beginning April 11 as part of its moves to minimize the effects of the disaster in Japan in its future operations.

These down days include those that have already been scheduled for the rest of the year, but were pulled ahead of schedule.

“Starting this week, we are pulling ahead 18 previously scheduled down days at our Santa Rosa manufacturing facility in the Philippines as a precautionary move to ensure we have parts availability going forward. The down days include an already planned weeklong shutdown for the Easter holiday in the Philippines,” Anika Salceda-Wycoco, Ford Group Philippines assistant vice president, said.

She said the company will resume manufacturing operations on May 9. Ford doesn’t have any production facilities in Japan but, like other automakers, does source parts from suppliers that were hurt by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Last week Honda Cars Philippines Inc. (HCPI) announced it is reducing its auto production by half because of difficulties in getting spare parts from Japan.

Honda’s Philippine plant in Santa Rosa, Laguna, produces about 15,000 vehicles a year. It was opened in 1992 and employs about 700 people.

HCPI says the facility produces the Honda City and Honda Civic models. Its PR department said it not known until when this reduced production schedule will be implemented
-- (With AP)

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For reference FGP produces Focus, Escape and Mazda 3 locally. Other models are either sourced from Thailand (Mazda 2, BT-50,Ranger, Everest, Fiesta) or the US (Explorer, Expedition, E-150) and for Mazda some models are from Japan (Mazda 6, CX-7, CX-9, and MX-7)...