Ford Motor Company contemplates on slowing down the Automotive Components Holdings (AHC) automotive parts plant located in Monroe. This step, which can actually make around 1,200 people lose their jobs, is being considered because of failure to get a buyer for the said manufactory.

According to AHC spokeswoman Della Di Pietro, gradual decrease in stabilizer bars and catalytic converters manufacture will probably take place by the end of next year. This is primarily because Ford Motor Company is mulling over the idea of moving the procedures concerning propeller shafts to another plant location.

The automotive parts plants of Ford in different locations have various conditions at present. A company has already offered to buy the vehicle parts plant in Milan. On the other hand, the one in Ypsilanti is already set to close. Moreover, although there are possible buyers, no definite plan is still made for the manufactory in Saline, wherein about 1, 200 people are gainfully employed.

Ford Motor Company takes responsibility over the hundreds of workers employed in the said industrial firm. Di Pietro verified that around 850 hourly laborers and roughly 150 employees with regular salary are provided for in a contract entered into by For Motor Company and the United Auto Workers union.

An update a few months ago increased the hope of many laborers at the Saline plant. It was reported that ACH was pondering on the idea of moving the interior works in Utica, a firm that produces interior products such as plastic instrument panels, to the local manufactory. In spite of that, what will happen to the multitude of workers in the Monroe plant is still not clear.

In 2005, Ford Motor Company retracted 17 plants, which included those plants in Milan, Ypsilanti and Saline, from an inadequate contractor Visteon Corporation. In this same year, the ACH was established. The said plants were originally intended to be sold or closed by 2008.