Zhongding Sealing Parts Inc. to close a factory in Ohio
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Jan 29,2013
Zhongding Sealing Parts USA Inc. will close a factory in Ohio to eliminate redundancy while it expands a distribution and technical facility in Michigan.
The American arm of the China-based Anhui Zhongding Holding Group of companies plans to shut down its engineered rubber products factory in Strasburg, eliminating the jobs of about 115 employees.
Production at the 80,000-sq.-ft. facility probably will continue until July when the site is expected to be closed, according to Steve Seketa, general manager of the rubber parts manufacturer. The plant primarily makes molded rubber goods for the automotive industry.
About 65 of those being laid off are full-time staff, and the remaining 50 are temporary workers, he said. The company notified employees of the pending layoffs early to give them additional time to search for jobs while they are still employed, he said.
“We wanted our people to have as much warning as possible,” Seketa said.
Meanwhile, Zhongding Sealing, formed by its parent company in 2008, is expanding its noise, vibration and harshness product distribution center in Mon- roe, Mich., by about 70,000 square feet, increasing its size to about 150,000 square feet, he said. The center serves the North American market. The project is expected to be complete in July.
Included in the addition is a 10,000-sq.-ft. NVH technical center and about 15,000 square feet for the firm's administrative operation. The majority of the site will be used as a distribution center for the company's products from China and other plants.
The firm's U.S. headquarters ultimately will move to the Monroe facility from Strasburg.
Zhongding Sealing is closing the Strasburg facility principally because it mirrors the parent company's production complex in China, Seketa said. “It's the only plant we operate that actually competes with our operation in China. The others are all complementary.”
Layoffs at the factory—which produces numerous rubber parts, including bushings and isolators—should begin in March and will continue in stages into July, he said.
Parts production slowly will shift from Strasburg to the company's plants in Ningguo, China; Cadillac, Mich.; and Hannibal, Mo., the executive said.
The job loss will impact all employees in all job classifications at the site, including the operation's general manager, plant manager, production supervisor, production employees and other per-sonnel, he said.
Zhongding Sealing's parent stepped into the U.S. market in 2008 when it bought Allied-Baltic Rubber Inc. and the Strasburg plant for $4.5 million. It renamed the operation Zhongding Sealing Parts USA and set up its American headquarters at the facility.
A year later it acquired Buckhorn Rubber Products Inc. and Michigan Rubber Products Inc. for $8.5 million from Akron-based Myers Industries Inc. to boost its presence in the U.S. The company has continued to grow since then, with its last acquisition coming in October when it purchased Precix Inc., a producer of about 1 billion parts a year based in New Bedford, Mass.
Legally know as Acushnet Rubber Co. but operating as Precix since 2001, the firm produces high-performance sealing products—primarily for the automotive, aerospace, energy and industrial industries—at the company's 305,000-sq.-ft. plant in New Bedford.
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