Power outages exacting toll on Ford’s PE engine plant

While Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) did not have “significant issues” with power supply in Gauteng, it was a different story in the Eastern Cape, said FMCSA and American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa president Jeff Nemeth earlier this month. Hosting the US Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, Catherine Novelli, at FMCSA’s Ranger assembly plant, in Pretoria, he said the company’s engine plant in Port Elizabeth had suffered 90 power outages over the last 12 months.