One other hearth has damaged out on the Novelis aluminum plant in Oswego, NY that provides sheet steel for Ford’s vehicles, together with its all-electric F-150 Lightning.
The four-alarm hearth began Thursday morning and has nonetheless not been extinguished. Native information outlet CNY Central was the primary to report the brand new blaze.
The Novelis plant suffered a significant hearth in September that stopped operations, and Ford has mentioned the disruption would probably value the automaker round $2 billion. Regardless of a second, smaller hearth in October, the aluminum provider had deliberate to restart manufacturing on the New York facility in December. (Stellantis and Nissan have additionally taken smaller hits to manufacturing on account of the September hearth.)
Ford needed to reduce manufacturing of primarily all of its F-150 vehicles following the September hearth, as they’ve used aluminum physique panels for years now. The automaker slowly began constructing these vehicles once more in October. But it surely was prioritizing the fuel and hybrid variations over the F-150 Lightning, which executives are reportedly discussing
It’s not clear what impression the brand new hearth can have on Ford’s plans. The corporate didn’t instantly responded to a request for remark. The Oswego Fireplace Division and Novelis additionally didn’t instantly return requests for remark.
