Buffalo Stamping Plant

Buffalo Stamping Plant manufactures metal stampings and welded sub-assemblies for Ford Motor Company's automotive car and truck assembly plants in North America, Great Britain and Mexico. The facility was opened in 1950 with 1,235,895 square feet (114,818 m²) of working floor space. We have had six major expansions and the facility is now at 2,452,883 square feet (227,880 m²) or 53.3 acres of floor space.

The plant is located on an 88 acre site at the Eastern end of Lake Erie near the city of Buffalo, New York. Our facility processes over 1,700 tons of steel each day and ships an average of 100 rail cars of parts manufactured to our customers daily. During the year, over 425,000 tons of steel are received for manufacturing at our facility. The facility has 28 major press stamping lines that include several transfer presses which include some of the world's largest. One of those large transfer presses is our Schuller. This Press is 162 feet (49 m) long, 88 feet (27 m) high from the basement to the top of the crown and weights in excess of 7,000,000 pounds.

We are a unionized shop with our workforce supported by the United Auto Workers Local 897. The Plant employs approximately 1200 people operating around the clock, averaging 250 work days each year. Modernization is an ongoing process at our facility with changes occurring continually.

Buffalo Stamping is a surrogate with two Ford Motor Company's Canadian assembly plants due to the volume of parts supplied to those facilities. St. Thomas Assembly plant located near London, Ontario, assembles the Ford Crown Victoria and the Mercury Grand Marquis. Our other Canadian customer is Oakville Assembly Complex which assembles the Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX Cross Utility Vehicles.

The combined requirements of parts manufactured equates to almost 100 separate stampings and welded sub-assemblies for these customers . Our facility supplies a total of 15 customers, Ford assembly plants and Ford part distribution depots. Buffalo Stamping Plant strives for continuous improvements in safety, working conditions, diversity and environmental issues.Our facility recently received recommendation for endorsement to the International ISO 14001 Standard for Environmental Management Systems.

Buffalo Stamping Plant is the first major stamping facility in North America to receive this endorsement. Buffalo Stamping is also certified to ISO 9001 International Standard for Quality since 1996. We are also very proud to be a Ford Motor Company Q-1 supplier since 1989.