 A third smokestack — shorter and wider than the other two — was constructed as the plant responds to meet environmental regulations.In 1929, Newton Steel opened a manufacturing plant on Lake Erie in Monroe, and this plant would later be purchased by Alcoa in 1942, Kelsey-Hayes in 1947, the Ford Motor Company in 1949 and subsequently under their Visteon division in 2000 and later as the Automotive Components Holdings in 2005.The plant, one of the most prominent manufacturing job in the county, produces various car parts for Ford.