(Illinois) Caterpillar says it plans to close five plants, causing a net reduction of about 670 jobs in Illinois and several other states, as part of a broader cost-cutting campaign announced last year.
The mining and construction equipment company will cut about 230 jobs for office and production workers at a major manufacturing campus in East Peoria, Illinois, where Caterpillar says it’s consolidating some manufacturing and transferring some work to outside contractors. Another 120 employees there will be placed on indefinite layoff.
Caterpillar is also closing factories and cutting about 250 jobs in Thomasville, Georgia and Santa Fe, New Mexico — although the company said it will consolidate some operations and add about 160 jobs at an existing plant in Pontiac, Illinois.
The company will close a forest products facility in Prentice, Wisconsin, resulting in about 220 job cuts. Other moves will affect plants in Indiana, Mississippi, Texas and China.
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