Plastics maker plans to close plants with 600 workers if no buyer

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Feb 4 | Associated Press

[Willie Green]

ANDOVER, Ohio (AP) -- A plastics maker has notified the state that it plans to close three plants that employ about 600 people in Ohio and Pennsylvania unless someone buys the bankrupt company.

Andover, Ohio-based Buffalo Molded Plastics, which is doing business as Andover Industries, has filed notice with state officials in Ohio and Pennsylvania that the last day of work for employees would be March 31. Andover Industries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October.

If a buyer doesn't come through, two plants in Meadville, Pa., that employ 250 and another plant in Andover with 342 workers would close under the company's plan, President Nick Bogdanso said. A plant in Dayton and a sales office in Troy, Mich., were not included in the company's closure notice to the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services. The plants make plastic parts for the automobiles, appliances and snowmobiles.

[Willie Green]

ping

[wallcrawlr]

a competitor going out of business...I wonder who their main customer was?

[80sReaganite]

So when will the media pick up on the fact that it's the union's (along with Wal-Mart) that are in large part responsible for jobs going overseas? China will have 900 workers doing the same work that these 600 are before these workers get their first unemployment check (or before the union bosses find another plant to close.)

[P.O.E.]

Plastic Factory

For no particular reason, just a free association moment, whenever I hear the term.

[bert]

This is a failed business. It is failing because???

Quality? Delivery problems? unable to work in current enviroment? failure to modernize? Rigid union?

No one will buy a failed business unless all of the above can be solved.