It will be another six to nine months before Ford Motor Co. revs up its newly installed production line for the all-new Transit van. But if you listen closely, you can hear the area’s next big economic engine rumbling to life.
It’s in the rhythmic thud of presses forming parts from sheet metal in the $100 million stamping plant in Liberty and the whirring of robots in a new paint shop at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo. It’s in the hammering and drilling of construction workers…
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