MORRISVILLE — AsteelFlash USA plans to close its plant in Morrisville, North Carolina, and lay off 204 workers, according to a filing with the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
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The layoffs include 131 workers in production, 28 workers in quality control and 16 in engineering.
Employees who work through the May 6 closing will receive a bonus of eight weeks of their base pay as part of their last paycheck, according to the filing.
“The company’s plant is closing because our only customer has made a decision to disengage with us,” said Albert Yanez, executive vice president and president of Americas, in a letter to the Department of Commerce.
AsteelFlash manufactures electronic manufacturing services (EMS), which are usually associated with small consumer devices such as computers and smart watches.
The parent company, AsteelFlash Group, is based in France and has manufacturing operations in 18 countries.
In 2012, it acquired American Catalyst Manufacturing Services Inc., which had plants in Morrisville and Tijuana, Mexico.
The notice to the state was filed pursuant to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which must be filed 60 days in advance of a plant closing that affects more than 50 employees in a 30-day period or a mass layoff of at least 500 employees or between 50 to 499 employees if they make up at least one-third of the employer’s workforce.
All North Carolina filings under the WARN Act can be found online.
This is the first mass layoff in Wake County in 2019.
This story is from the North Carolina Business News Wire, a service of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Media and Journalism
