Production at the US car manufacturer Ford’s plant in western Germany resumed on Thursday following the temporary return to work of employees from several suppliers in the city of Saarlouis on the French border. “I can confirm that production was at a standstill until yesterday and that Ford Focuses have been rolling off the production line again since this morning,” a Ford spokeswoman said in Cologne. After four days of strike action, the local branch of the IG Metall union called on around 500 employees from five supplier companies in the industrial park in Saarlouis to temporarily resume wo…