- Parent / corporate of record
- Ford Motor Company
- Type
- manufacturer
- Address
- Kentucky Truck Plant: 3001 Chamberlain Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville Assembly Plant: 2000 Fern Valley Road, Louisville, Kentucky.
- Employment
- About 13,000 combined in Jefferson — roughly 8,500 to 9,000 at the Kentucky Truck Plant and 4,000 to 4,500 at the Louisville Assembly Plant
- Established
- 1969 (Kentucky Truck Plant); 1955 (Louisville Assembly Plant)
- Website
- https://corporate.ford.com
Ford runs two assembly plants inside Jefferson County. The Kentucky Truck Plant at 3001 Chamberlain Lane employs about 8,500 to 9,000 and builds the F-Series Super Duty (F-250 through F-550), the Ford Expedition, and the Lincoln Navigator on a roughly $700 million retool that completed in 2024. The Louisville Assembly Plant at 2000 Fern Valley Road employs about 4,000 to 4,500 and builds the Ford Escape and the Lincoln Corsair; LAP is in an extended 2026 idle tied to Ford's EV-strategy reset, and the idle window opens deferred maintenance demand rather than closure. Both plants are represented by UAW Local 862 and sit at the center of a Tier-1 and Tier-2 supplier base that reaches across Jefferson into Bullitt, Hardin, Nelson, and Daviess. Ford Energy at Glendale in Hardin County — the post-BlueOval-SK Ford subsidiary that pivoted from EV cells to data-center battery energy storage under Lisa Drake and a CATL technology license — is a distinct facility on a distinct contracting track, not part of the KTP-and-LAP footprint.
Recent capital investment
- $700 million-plus (2022–2024)
Kentucky Truck Plant retooling for the all-new F-Series Super Duty, the Ford Expedition, and the Lincoln Navigator. The retool is complete; maintenance carry-through, paint-line work, and tank vessel-entry scope extend through 2026.
- No new capex; status only (2024–2026)
Louisville Assembly Plant — extended 2026 idle tied to Ford's EV-strategy reset. Idle is not closure; deferred tank cleaning, boiler-internal inspection, paint-line drain-and-clean, and pit-and-sump work are scheduled into the idle window. The plant builds the Ford Escape and the Lincoln Corsair.
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Procurement notes
Ford does not contract through SAM.gov. Suppliers register through Ford's commercial supplier portal at corporate.ford.com, and the supplier-quality program (Ford Q1) governs flowdown to Tier-1 and Tier-2 vendors under the IATF 16949 automotive quality-management standard. Ford Supplier Diversity and Inclusion (FSDI) runs the small- and diverse-business intake. At Kentucky Truck and the Louisville Assembly Plant, the practical sub-scope lanes for small operators are staffing-and-services and logistics-tier adjacency — confined-space-entry and shutdown-period services under OSHA 29 CFR 1910.146, paint-line and tank-cleaning work, lockout-tagout, and emergency call-out under national plant-services primes (BrandSafway, Apex Industrial, Apollo, Spencer, AKW). UAW Local 862 represents the hourly workforce at both plants and the local contract governs which scope can be subcontracted versus performed by in-plant maintenance. The Plant Maintenance Manager at each plant is the procurement contact for sub-scope vendor architecture. Note: Ford Energy at Glendale in Hardin County — the wholly-owned subsidiary that took over after the BlueOval SK joint venture dissolved on December 11, 2025 — is a separate filing entity from Ford Motor Company at KTP and LAP, with its own training-vendor and CATL-licensed BESS supplier track.