The company’s US subsidiary Future Graphics is cutting staff numbers as it closes its monochrome toner plant in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Richmond.com reported on the layoffs, which were revealed this week by MKIC/Future Graphics in a statement. The plant’s closure was revealed in November this year, with the employees losing their jobs from 19 January 2016, according to a Virginia state website listing job cuts and closings.
The site posted the job cuts in compliance with the US government’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, while MKIC President and CEO Hiromitsu Takayama stated, according to Richmond.com, that the decision had been very hard to make, but that the closure had to happen as part of the company’s reorganisation.
The company closed another of its Chesapeake plants – laying off around 80 staff – in 2008, while 28 staff were made redundant in 2014, including Vice President of Sales, Thomas Spicker, and International Sales Director for South America, Manny Matamoros. On that occasion, six were from the Virginia facility and 20 from its Mexican division. Finally, this March saw a fresh wave of redundancies, with logistics outsourced to a third-party provider.