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Get Patch's daily newsletter and real-time news alerts. DEARBORN, MI – Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it will invest $1.6 billion to upgrade two manufacturing plants in Michigan and Ohio, a plan the Dearborn-based automaker said will create or retain 650 hourly jobs. Ford will invest $1.4 billion in its Livonia Transmission plant and $200 million in its Ohio Assembly Plant, both part of the $9 billion commitment the company made in the 2015 UAW-Ford collective bargaining agreement to continue investing in its U.S. plants.

The Michigan Economic Development Corp. announced the investment Tuesday. More from Across Patch

Ford said it has invested $12 billion in its U.S. plants and created a total of nearly 28,000 U.S. jobs in the past five years. "We are proud that Ford employs more hourly workers and builds more vehicles in the United States than any other automaker," Joe Hinrichs, Ford president, The Americas, said in a statement. "We are committed to manufacturing in the United States, as we have been for more than 100 years." The investment will create or retain 500 hourly jobs in Michigan, where the new 10-speed transmission introduced in the all-new F-150 Raptor and certain F-150 models will be built. Also on Patch

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Ford Announces Sweeping Plan to Transform Dearborn Campus The investment and 150 hourly jobs at Ohio Assembly Plant, located in Avon Lake, will be used to build Super Duty chassis cab. Both F-Series trucks are part of Ford's toughest, smartest, most capable truck lineup ever. Ford said it has created or retained 2,800 U.S. jobs in the past five months, and has committed to 8,500 hourly jobs in the United States in the next four years in communities across Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, New York and Ohio.