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April 16th, 2008 | by Manufacturing Business |R.I. Loses 500 More Manufacturing Jobs.
More manufacturing jobs are leaving the state of Rhode Island. KIK Custom Products, a Canadian company, announced Monday it will close its Cumberland plant, which employs 400 people, sometime this year. In Bristol, a division of Saint Gobain Performance Plastics is eliminating one of its plastics product lines and about 90 jobs. According to the company, the production of the product is moving to Mexico. The Bristol plant will keep only about 70 jobs in Rhode Island. ‘We expect this move to improve the overall efficiency of our operations,’ said Susan Lindsey, a company spokeswoman. Since the beginning of the year, Rhode Island has lost nearly 3,000 jobs with most being lost in the manufacturing industry. ‘Individuals, companies are struggling. Not just here in Rhode Island. This is happening around the country.
