Race Day Live (Jasper, AL) – A manufacturing company intends to close its car parts plant in Alabama by March, according to a notice filed with the state.
Nitto Inc. will lay off 56 people as its Jasper manufacturing site closes, according to a WARN warning issued this week by the Alabama Department of Commerce. According to the notice, the plant will close by March 7.
Nitto Inc. is the American subsidiary of the Japanese business Nitto Denko Corporation. The Jasper plant, a 53,000 square-foot manufacturing facility that has been in operation since 2003, is located in the city’s Bevill Industrial Park, according to its website. The Jasper Industrial Development Board identifies the company as the city’s seventh largest employment.
Green Suttles, executive director of the Jasper Industrial Development Board, stated that the company provided severance to employees and is working with the board to connect them with a local job center.
“Nitto Denko has treated their people spectacularly, in my opinion,” he remarked in an interview. “I was very pleased with the company working hard to communicate with their people.”
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Suttles stated that the firm informed the city of the stoppage because it was merging its southern car operations into a single location in Kentucky. Nitto is also closing its Ohio plant and laying off the majority of its workers there.
“That’s their business,” Suttles said. “That’s what they’re doing, but everybody but Kentucky lost.”
Suttles stated that Bevill State Community College is already in talks to purchase the site from Nitto and convert it into a training center as part of a partnership with Alabama Power to establish the Alabama Energy Infrastructure Training Center and Network in the industrial park, expanding on its HVAC workforce development program.
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