Another fire ignites at Ford aluminum supplier Novelis

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Another fire ignited on Thursday at Novelis' aluminum plant in Oswego, New York, that supplies Ford's lucrative F-150 truck line, about two months after a blaze halted much of the facility's production.

Ford in October cut its profit forecast, citing a gross hit of up to $2 billion from the incident. The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker expects to offset about $1 billion of that next year by increasing production at certain truck plants, it said in October.

While Novelis also supplies other automakers, Ford is a major consumer because its trucks use a largely aluminum body. The automaker indefinitely paused production of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup in Michigan after the September fire, and output of its