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– Halewood Plant
Close relationships
As Ford’ s first European EV power plant, Halewood plays a critical role in the overall production of the firm’ s finished EVs. Lee explains what made Ford choose Halewood as the ideal facility for this development.“ During the bidding process I mentioned earlier, our reputation for quality and our progressive team were key to our success. Once the bid was secured, the real work began, with the powertrain manufacturing engineering team from the E: PriME days developing the processes. Additionally, we took the unusual step of embedding some of our engineers into those teams, allowing them to work directly together to develop the processes, thus significantly enhancing our expertise. When those engineers later moved on to the next project, our remaining team members, who are responsible for running and maintaining the facilities, had already worked closely with our machine tool vendors and taken ownership
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