He said the net job loss from Monday's announcement should be the 1,100 hourly workers at the castings plant. Salaried workers at the plant will be offered opportunities elsewhere in Ford, he said.

The company will repeat its buyout and early retirement offers to all workers at the Brook Park complex, Hinrichs said. So far about 25,000 workers for Ford and a holding company that is running some plants it intends to close or sell have left the company under the program, Hinrichs said.

The cuts in Brook Park are the latest planned by Ford in Ohio, which has been hit especially hard by Ford's troubles.

Last September, Ford said it was closing a stamping plant in Maumee, near Toledo, that has 680 workers and in January 2006, Ford said it was closing a transmission plant in Batavia, near Cincinnati, with 1,445 workers. Both those plants are set to close next year.

In addition, Ford has said that by the end of 2008 it would close or sell all facilities that it took back as part of a bailout of Visteon Corp., a supplier spun off from the automaker. A component plants in Sandusky, Ohio, that employs 1,700 workers is among the operations affected.