How Faurecia made over a Visteon relic

摘要

SALINE, Mich. - Everything about Faurecia SA's interior trim plant is big. The former Ford and Visteon plant here once made instrument panels for every Ford vehicle built in North America. The plant, which opened in 1966, has 1.6 million square feet of floor space - big enough to accommodate 27 football fields. When Faurecia bought the plant in 2012, 9 miles of conveyors snaked around the building. Boxes holding thousands of parts were stacked toward the ceiling. In short, the Saline plant was an industrial relic.