BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A Burlington glass manufacturer has told employees the plant will close its doors May 1, leaving the eastern Iowa city with about 30 fewer jobs.
The Burlington Hawk Eye reports that the PPG Industries plant announced the impending closure on Friday. Employees were told of the plan Thursday.
The 29 employees affected will be given an opportunity to transfer to PPG manufacturing plants in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Wichita Falls, Texas.
The Burlington plant, which began operations in 1988 in the former Trane building, manufactures tempered flat glass and custom, cutsize annealed glass for the residential, solar and appliance markets.
Company officials blamed the closure on the selling of PPG’s Mount Zion, Illinois, glass manufacturing facility last year. That plant was the Burlington plant’s largest supplier of raw glass.
