I read this article this morning. Anyone know what kind of filters they're talking about, in terms of decreasing demand? And what kind of filters are made at the Champion plant in illinois?
From The Rock Hill (SC) Herald
York's Champion Laboratories plant to lay off 130 worker
Company to keep 150 jobs at Ratchford Road site
By Matt Garfield · 2009 The Herald
Updated 02/11/09 - 6:37 AM |
YORK -- An oil filter manufacturer will lay off 130 workers at its York facility as it shifts production to another plant.
Champion Laboratories says the jobs will go to Albion, Ill., where workers make a type of filter now in greater demand. An estimated 150 workers will remain at the York plant.
"The product that we need to make more of, that our customers are asking us to make, we simply don't make at York," said Matt Rechin, Champion's vice president of marketing.
Company representatives met with York Mayor Eddie Lee and county officials to deliver the news.
"The hand of the national recession has touched us," Lee said. "They're not closing their plant; that's the good thing. They've been wonderful corporate citizens."
Layoffs will occur over the next two months, but the York facility will continue to make different oil filters for many of North America's major automakers, Champion officials said.
"This decision was in no way a reflection on the performance of the York facility," the company said in an announcement.
Since its founding in the 1950s, Champion has grown from a small Midwestern company into one of the world's biggest suppliers of filters and filtration products. The York plant is located on Ratchford Road off Kings Mountain Street.
From The Rock Hill (SC) Herald
York's Champion Laboratories plant to lay off 130 worker
Company to keep 150 jobs at Ratchford Road site
By Matt Garfield · 2009 The Herald
Updated 02/11/09 - 6:37 AM |
YORK -- An oil filter manufacturer will lay off 130 workers at its York facility as it shifts production to another plant.
Champion Laboratories says the jobs will go to Albion, Ill., where workers make a type of filter now in greater demand. An estimated 150 workers will remain at the York plant.
"The product that we need to make more of, that our customers are asking us to make, we simply don't make at York," said Matt Rechin, Champion's vice president of marketing.
Company representatives met with York Mayor Eddie Lee and county officials to deliver the news.
"The hand of the national recession has touched us," Lee said. "They're not closing their plant; that's the good thing. They've been wonderful corporate citizens."
Layoffs will occur over the next two months, but the York facility will continue to make different oil filters for many of North America's major automakers, Champion officials said.
"This decision was in no way a reflection on the performance of the York facility," the company said in an announcement.
Since its founding in the 1950s, Champion has grown from a small Midwestern company into one of the world's biggest suppliers of filters and filtration products. The York plant is located on Ratchford Road off Kings Mountain Street.
