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The Woodhaven Stamping Plant is located on a 409.5 acre site, 19 miles southwest
of downtown Detroit at Interstate 75 and West Road.
Construction
began in August 1964 and in June 1965 (10 months later) the first major
stamping, a Mustang quarter panel, was produced.
Installation
of the first 15 press lines was completed in 1965. Ten additional lines
were placed in operation early in 1967. Additional lines were placed in
operation for the 1986 model program. This added transfer presses rated
at various capacities. The major presses have a rated capacity of 3,500
tons. Others are rated at 2,000, 1,500, 1,250, 1,000 and 800 tons. The
1996 truck program added the Schuler crossbar press which is rated at 6,000
tons.
Major
stampings produced at Woodhaven are door panels, hoods, fenders, truck bodysides, quarter panels, floor pans, bumper reinforcements, roofs and
tailgates. Assembly operations further process stamped panels into complete
doors, hoods, fenders, floor pans and reinforcing assemblies. Automatic
press welders and C-frames perform the bulk of these assembly operations.
Stampings
from Woodhaven are shipped principally by rail to the Company's assembly
plants where they are used in the construction of Ford®,
Mustang, Continental, Lincoln, Mercury, F series and Ranger trucks. Three
depressed railroad tracks -- one at the west side of the building, utilized
for incoming steel, and two at the east side that support production outbound
parts which run the full length of the building and can accommodate 30
freight cars at one time. Huge coils of rolled steel arrive by truck at
the rate of 1,400 tons per day. The plant ships about 12,000 carloads of
parts annually to between 16-24 Ford®
assembly plants including Europe and South America.
Quick Facts
(as of 12/31/1999)
W.S.P. HAS...
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409.5 acres total area
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Plant area of 62 acres
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Approx. 2,200 employees (not including
TPT employees)
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11 major blanking presses
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29 major press line
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7 major transfer lines
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7,500 ton capacity on largest press
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3 automatic shears
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11 automatic coil feeds
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186 robots
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80 welding lines
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A capacity to handle 50 trucks per
day
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72 Freight boxcars to accommodate daily
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500 computer terminals
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a 300,000 gallon water tower
W.S.P. USES PER DAY...
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1,600 tons of steel
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230 tons of steel recycled
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2,500 tons of steel in stock (average
steel coil weighs 20 tons)
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115,000 gallons of water
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400,000 kilowatts of electricity
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675,000 cubic feet of gas
W.S.P. PAYS PER YEAR...
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$7.0 million in property taxes
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$7.0 million for utilities
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$166 million in wages
W.S.P. GIVES PER YEAR
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$300,000(approx.) to United Way
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$35,000 to Penrickton Center for blind
handicapped children
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250 pints of blood to Red Cross
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Brother
Gary Lifford
Woodhaven
Stamping
Plant Chairman,
U.A.W.
Local #387 |
Brother
John
Moore
President,
U.A.W. Local #387 |
Brother
Jeff Faber
Woodhaven Forging
Plant
Chairman,
U.A.W. Local #387 |
