A buyer was found for the former Ford plant in Vsevolozhsk

A buyer was found at the site of the former Ford plant in Vsevolozhsk. This was announced by the Governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko, by noting that he could not name the owner of this enterprise. At the same time, he assured that "it will become known soon", and the stage of re-registration of the land plot for this company is already beginning.

Recall that the Vsevolozhsk Ford plant has been idle since June 2019, when the American company curtailed the production of passenger cars in Russia. The company produced Focus and Mondeo models, and the number of employees at the time of plant closure reached a thousand people.

The capacity of the plant in Vsevolozhsk is more than 160 thousand vehicles per year, and Ford's total investment in production since the opening of the plant has exceeded $ 400 million. Meanwhile, in the autumn of this year, the president of the Sollers Ford JV, Adil Shirinov, said that Ford does not exclude the resumption of the production of passenger cars in Russia, and we can talk about full-size SUVs.

According to him, with the correct organization of production in Russia, the production of Ford electric vehicles can also be established. However, there was no official announcement of the return of the American brand to our country.