Thread: This week's job loss report

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Texas's Huntsman Corp. said Tuesday it plans to layoff 650 people as part of its purchase of Ciba Specialty Chemicals Inc. earlier this year.

Huntsman will open a technical center in Qingdao, China, as well as two new formulation and distribution centers in that country.
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A Brighton automotive plant has plans to downsize its workforce. The automotive plant will cut their workforce from 376 workers to about 60.

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Dana Corp Closing Kentucky Facility
Dated: 10/25/2006 12:16:38 PM

Toledo-based auto parts supplier Dana Corporation is closing a plant in southwest Kentucky by June because of weak auto sales.

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Friday, the last Ford Taurus will roll off the line, and with it, the plant will close. The Hapeville plant is one of 14 Ford plants scheduled to close by 2012.
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Company closing farm-implement plants in Illinois, Pa.

The Associated Press

GOODFIELD, Ill. - More than 200 workers will lose their jobs next year when a plant that makes farm implements closes in this small central Illinois town. Goodfield's Case New Holland plant will be shuttered by the end of 2007 along with a factory with 450 employees in Belleville, Pa., according to CNH Global.
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I get the feeling these companies know something we don't and are moving their operations out of harms way.