Industrial manufacturing company Columbus McKinnon is closing a Charlotte plant next month which will leave 79 people without jobs as operations are shifted 2,300 miles away to Mexico.
In a statement, Columbus McKinnon called the move “a difficult decision.”
The company is closing its Duff-Norton facility on Pioneer Avenue on Sept. 29. Columbus McKinnon produces lifting devices, hoists and conveyor belts. The Duff-Norton division makes sc--w jacks, rotary unions and other industrial devices.
It had moved its corporate headquarters from Buffalo, New York, to Charlotte in 2022.
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