2 plant closings announced in the past few weeks. What plant will be next?
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How many of these sites closing are still on the old ERP system?
@2jw so far it sounds like November or so. Got word they need to stock up inventory so they have products to move and sell while still waiting for another site to get the products they will be handling certified. It’s fu---d up basically telling people to continue to work and be positive while knowing the place they work is getting shut down… oh but they’re offering severance lmao. Does matter when 90% of the people that work there haven’t been there for more than 5 years. It’s fu-kung crazy.
Still no word exactly what date Detroit is closing. Anyone hear anything?
I think Cottage Grove will eventually develop into a Pilot Plant site. Have heard rumblings of Corporate wanting to shut down Automotive and Film at CG but many feel it’s a scare tactic to get their sh-t together. Does 3M have a similar automotive line elsewhere in America?
Things seem so hopeless right now that I am not sure how I’d feel if my plant were next. So many demands and fewer and fewer people to do them.
@14n
That was a medical line that got moved out of Valley, aka Solventum now. It had to move out as part of the spin off. Valley has tons of molding and assembly for many PPE products and they just doubled the plant with a major addition a couple years ago. It is in no danger of being shut down.
@12k
SOS= source of supply. If they close one, they will close all
Valley had a major process line moved out of there recently. And the other major process there is redundant to similar lines throughout the world.
SOS = save our sites? You dont think the IMPD sites will be dissolved anytime soon?
@gk
Wow Varys, you must have really been out of it for a while if you think Valley, NE is small... Both Valley and Aberdeen are huge plants that have expanded multiple times. While anything is theoretically possible, moving or combining either of them would be a massive undertaking, affecting hundreds of millions in sales in any situation.
No way to merge the mines(IMPD plants). Shipping rock across the country is very expensive. These plants are regional SOS
I'm worried about our plant in red wing, MN. Fall protection, which seems to me an easy cut with so much manual labor in such a niche market. Things have been spiraling for a few years now. Positions merging, not being filled after vacancy. Plans not coming to fruition. Lines moving to mexico. Missing goals. Our strongest leaders in a while left about a year ago. We feel adrift.
Leadership told us we had "an opportunity to increase revenue and finish the year strong" in december which to me reads like a bad chatgpt prompt on how to tell your employees it ain't going so well with a positive spin.
Small, single division/product plants are most vulnerable I think, just like Detroit.
Angleton, TX - Merge with Springfield (or vice versa)
Hartford City, IN - Move to Cordova and Hutchinson
Valley, NE - Merge with Aberdeen
Rabka, Poland - Merge with Wroclaw
Tonawanda, NY - Finally fully outsource sponges
Merge the mines - don't need all 3 plus Little Rock for processing.
Cottage Grove I think is safe as a site, but it will not a new significant process anytime soon, if ever. ASD is too big to move, the rest of the plant is too polluted to sell.
@b5 amazing and quite demoralizing indeed. BB has his chess board of 3M businesses and decides which plants to send to the graveyard. What does he even know about an innovation company like 3M?
Probably one of his cronies hired for millions plus copious perks made the decision for him and BB just signed off on it on a Thursday before flying back to his Florida yacht club for the weekend.
What a crazy way to destroy both employee morale and a company built on innovation!
5 to go if you read the Investor Q&A after the Jan earnings. BB said "You know we ended the year around, about 108 factories. We have several, about seven coming out with the sale of precision grinding and finishing. So call it about 100 factories."
Number 6 maker in St Paul
Maybe not the entire site, but is there any plant in Garbage Grove that's being lined up for BBs next power move.