Another fire breaks out at aluminum plant that supplies Ford

Another occurrence has breached retired astatine the Novelis aluminum works successful Oswego, NY that supplies expanse metallic for Ford’s trucks, including its all-electric F-150 Lightning.

The four-alarm occurrence started Thursday greeting and has inactive not been extinguished. Local quality outlet CNY Central was the archetypal to report the caller blaze.

The Novelis works suffered a large occurrence successful September that stopped operations, and Ford has said the disruption would apt outgo the automaker astir $2 billion. Despite a second, smaller occurrence successful October, the aluminum supplier had planned to restart accumulation astatine the New York installation successful December. (Stellantis and Nissan person besides taken smaller hits to production arsenic a effect of the September fire.)

Ford had to standard backmost accumulation of fundamentally each of its F-150 trucks pursuing the September fire, arsenic they person utilized aluminum assemblage panels for years now. The automaker dilatory started gathering those trucks again successful October. But it was prioritizing the state and hybrid versions implicit the F-150 Lightning, which executives are reportedly discussing

It’s not wide what interaction the caller occurrence volition person connected Ford’s plans. The institution did not instantly responded to a petition for comment. The Oswego Fire Department and Novelis besides did not instantly instrumentality requests for comment.