OGDEN — After two rounds of layoffs this year, a Levolor-Kirsch Window Fashions spokesman now says the company will close its assembly operations here.
The company will continue a painting operation and a distribution center employing 60 at the Ogden facility, said company spokesman Joe Ketter.
About 100 of the Ogden layoffs were announced in January, with 120 more earlier this month. Those laid off included production workers and production management, Ketter said.
Affected workers, whose layoffs take effect in June, are being provided with transition packages that include severance pay and outplacement services.
"This was a difficult announcement to make," Ketter said. "Ogden has always been one of our better-performing facilities, and we appreciate their professionalism in dealing with this."
The closure and layoffs are the latest step in a manufacturing consolidation process the window-covering maker and marketer expects to complete in June. Last month, Levolor-Kirsch closed plants in Athens, Ga., and High Point, N.C., affecting about 440 workers.
Some jobs from the High Point plant have been moved to Levolor-Kirsch's Salt Lake plant, which Ketter said will expand from 170 to about 200 employees in the coming months.