Cryovac Counteracts Region’s Layoffs with Rogers Plant
by July 7, 2003 11:11 am 184 views
Three local businesses will lay off a combined 465 workers by summer’s end. But Cryovac, a subsidiary of Fortune 500 firm Sealed Air Corp., announced on June 26 that it plans to open a plant in Rogers to produce shrink film food packaging.
The Rogers Plant on Bekaert Drive will produce packaging for poultry, pork and red meat. It will consist of a new 165,000-SF facility in phase one and will employ 100 people by the end of 2003.
Plans are for the plant to start limited production by the end of the year and have full production by early 2004, officials said.
Fayetteville’s Washington Regional Medical Center fired 43 workers on June 18. WRMC, said it also eliminated another 40 spots through attrition during the first quarter and that the layoffs would help it save $2.3 million annually.
West Corp., a telemarketing firm, announced on June 9 that it will displace 350 workers when it closes its Fayetteville office on Aug. 1. Lincoln-based Cal-Maine, a poultry egg plant, closed on May 15 leaving 32 workers jobless.