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Dana expands Kentucky hydroforming capability
October 20, 2000
<%=company1%> (Toledo, OH) is building a new 156,000 sq-ft hydroform building at its Elizabethtown, KY, plant. The facility is set to open in mid-2001. The hydroformed components will be assembled into full frames for future Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator models. Financial details of the expansion weren't disclosed on Friday. Today, Elizabethtown makes frames for the Lincoln Blackwood, Ford's F-150 line-up, as well as the current Expedition and Navigator.
The new building will include two 10,000-ton RoboClamps and a 16,000-ton hydroform press. In addition, it'll have a 42-ton crane capacity, four shipping docks, an underground scrap removal system, and automated processing. Meantime, a new electrocoating process for painting the frames will be located in an 115,000-sq-ft expansion to the E-town plant. Dana, which employs 80,000 worldwide, operates 320 facilities in 32 countries.
Edited by Norman Martin
Managing Editor, AutoCentral.com
