OREANDA-NEWS. At the end of 2014 Ford Sollers has reached the general level of localization of production of 40%. The press service of the joint venture informed the agency "AUTOSTAT" by noting that Ford Sollers is a full member of the "industrial assembly", and by 2018 the localization of Russian of production of Ford vehicles will reach 60%.

As the press service of the Ford Sollers informed, the company is developing actively its base of suppliers of components and raw materials, which currently has about 70 local suppliers, and it is diversifying the amount of locally produced parts. More than 100 items of stamping are purchased locally. Metal for bodywork is localized by 65%. Russian oil and chemical companies have developed 7 specifications of polymeric compositions for the production of details of interior / exterior such as bumpers, door and instrument panels, etc. Ford Sollers also began to install on cars the parts from local plastic developed in Russia. Totally for Ford cars, produced at plants Ford Sollers, there are produced 86 parts from the local plastic, and by the end of 2015 it is planned to increase this number up to 150 parts.