OREANDA-NEWS. Ford Spain has announced that Dionisio Campos is appointed manufacturing director, effective October 1. He will replace Antonio Ad?s, who is retiring after 36 years with Ford. Ades was appointed manufacturing director in 2000.

Born in 1961, in the Castell?n region, Dionisio is a technical electric engineer and gained a MBA at Anglia University in the UK. He joined Ford in 1989 in Spain, working in the Engine Development Department.

He subsequently moved to England where he worked in a number of area, including Manufacturing Development and as manager of new engine launches. In the period 2008/2011 he participated in the purchase and start-up of the Craiova plant in Romania.