Magna to establish Ford supplier facilities in Stanton, Lawrenceburg

Magna will construct the first two supplier facilities at Blue Oval City in Stanton as well as a stamping and assembly facility in Lawrenceburg, investing more than $790 million and creating approximately 1,300 new jobs in the state. Ford’s on-site supplier park will allow for vertical integration that helps ensure efficient production at Blue Oval City, which will be capable of producing 500,000 electric trucks a year at full production. Magna will supply Ford’s Blue Oval City with battery enclosures, truck frames and seats for the automaker’s second-generation electric truck. Magna’s two facilities at Blue Oval City supplier park include a new 800,000-square-foot frame and battery enclosures facility and a 140,000-square-foot seating facility. The battery enclosures facility will join one of Magna’s sister plants in Ontario, Canada, which is currently producing battery enclosures for the Ford F-150 Lightning. The seating facility will produce polyurethane foam and assemble and sequence “just-in-time” (JIT) complete seats. Magna will employ approximately 750 employees at its battery enclosures facility and 300 employees at its new seating plant. In addition, Magna will construct a new 400,000-square-foot stamping and assembly plant at the Team Lawrence Commerce Park – West, a Select Tennessee Certified Site(opens in a new tab) in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, that will produce truck frames. Magna will employ roughly 250 employees at this location. Production at all three plants is scheduled to begin in 2025.