Genk Body & Assembly

Later on the plant focused on producing mid-sized family cars including the company's Sierra and Mondeo models.

Ford announced in October 2012 that it was planning to close its Genk plant at the end of 2014 in response to longstanding over-capacity problems in Europe,[2][3] as part of a larger closure plan that will see the manufacturer's European capacity slashed by 20%, with further capacity cuts penciled in should the company not succeed in returning to higher European sales volumes.

[4] The next generation of the Ford Mondeo was assembled, for the European market, at the Valencia plant.

It was noted that this was significantly below the US$202,700 per worker that had been the price reportedly paid by General Motors at the closure in 2010 of their Antwerp facility.

[4] At the end of 2016 it was estimated that the decontamination of the site would cost 11.4 million euros.