Caterpillar Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, has announced plans to lay off around 100 workers from a plant in Indiana. According to company spokesman Jim Dugan, 106 production employees at the Large Engine Center in Lafayette, will be laid off starting in November. He stated that the layoffs were decided upon [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 16, 2009
Samsung Austin Semiconductor will close a microchip factory in Austin, Texas for a year starting in October, to retool and modernize the facility. Five hundred out of 1,600 workers will be laid off, although up to 200 new jobs will be created when the plant reopens. The job cuts will target less skilled workers; the new [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 15, 2009
CooperVision will shut down its soft contact lens plant in Norfolk, Virginia, cutting 570 jobs. The work at the plant will be sent to Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, and Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, United Kingdom. No new jobs will be created there. Cooper has cut 685 manufacturing jobs in the past year. CooperVision was founded in 1979, and is the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Pratt & Whitney will shutter its aircraft engine plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, putting 100 workers on the street. The layoffs will occur over the next year and a half. Those targeted will get severance packages and outplacement assistance. East Hartford, Connecticut’s Pratt & Whitney manufactures aircraft engines used in both civil and military aircraft. It also manufactures [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 7, 2009
Norwood, Massachusetts’ Analog Devices will shutter its manufacturing facility in Cambridge, eliminating 120 jobs. Work will be sent to the firm’s Wilmington plant. The Cambridge factory makes motion detectors used in a wide variety of products, from automobile air bags to video game controllers. Analog Devices is a multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion and signal conditioning [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 24, 2009
Pratt & Whitney will relocate jobs its Cheshire, Connecticut repair plant to other company plants, in Columbus, Georgia and in Singapore. And an East Hartford airfoil repair plant would be closed, and its jobs sent overseas. One thousand jobs are in danger. Pratt & Whitney is an American aircraft engine manufacturer of products widely used in both [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 24, 2009
Pilgrim’s Pride will shut down its Athens, Alabama chicken processing plant, laying off 640 employees. The firm will also shutter one of its two plants in Athens, Georgia. The plants could be reopened at a later date. Those laid off in Alabama may be offered other positions. All will be given outplacement assistance. Pilgrim’s Pride, headquartered in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 24, 2009
Office furniture maker The HON Company is permanently closing its factory in Louisburg, North Carolina, putting 93 workers on the street. The layoffs will come in phases and complete in December. Work will go to HON plants in Iowa, Georgia, Kentucky and Alabama. HNI Corporation, formerly HON Industries, is the second-largest office furniture manufacturer in the world, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Avon Products will eliminate 1,200 jobs over the next four years, and shut down plants in Ohio and Germany. The job cuts will target 3% of Avon’s workforce. The company will close its Springdale, Ohio, plant by mid-2012. Avon announced plans to eliminate 3,000 jobs in February. Avon Products is a US cosmetics, perfume and toy multi-level marketing [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Duffy Tool & Stamping factory in Muncie, Indiana will shut down by the end of October, putting 130 workers on the dole queue. Duffy’s parent company, Brittany Stamping, blames the shutdown on the global economic meltdown. In 2001, Duffy employed 450 in Muncie. Established in 1978, Brittany Stamping is a private company located in Cleveland, Ohio. It [...]
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