ROCK HILL, S.C. — Terex Corp. will shutter production operations at its Rock Hill facility and lay off nearly 150 employees by the beginning of 2021, the Connecticut-based company has informed the state of South Carolina.
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“Due to declining orders and discontinuation of product lines, and the need to gain efficiencies by consolidating production at fewer sites, we have made the difficult decision to permanently end manufacturing operations at the Rock Hill location,” Russ Robertson, director of human resources, wrote in the company’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification sent to the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce on Oct. 26.
About 144 employees at the Terex USA LLC facility, located at 590 Huey Road in Rock Hill Industrial Park, will be laid off as a result of the move. Of those employees, 132 are production workers, and the remainder work in office and sales support, according to the WARN letter.