Plant Closings

MONETT, Mo. -- Workers at  the Dairy Farmers of America plant in Monett will soon be looking for new jobs.  Eighty-six employees were notified by a letter on Wednesday that the DFA plant will be shutting down in the second half of 2013. It's not the news...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago police arrested about two dozen people on Monday who were protesting against the planned closure of 54 schools in the country's third-largest school district, ahead of a planned Wednesday vote on the matter. The protests at...

Duke Energy Progress shut down the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Wake County on Wednesday after the company discovered that the reactor vessel -- which holds the plant's nuclear fuel and contains the nuclear reaction -- showed early indications of...

Medical-product manufacturer Hartmann USA Inc. plans to shut its Bloomington plant less than six years after acquiring it, a move that will result in layoffs for almost all of the facility's 72 employees. Those Indiana positions will be eliminated as...

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc stepped up Bangladesh factory inspections while U.S. and European retailers pursued separate accords to try to prevent another disaster in a garment industry where more than 1,200 workers have died in the past six months....

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - General Motors' loss-making European brand Opel will move production of the multi-purpose vehicle Zafira to Ruesselsheim in Germany, shoring up its headquarters as it prepares to close another German site. "This will make...

* Demand for solar panels to grow to more than 35 GW in 2013 * Number of equipment makers has dropped to less than 150 * House owners, farmers emerge as winners in current turmoil By Christoph Steitz FRANKFURT, May 10 (Reuters) - Planned European...

The entry into Lake Michigan of 79 gallons of what officials at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission describe as "very slightly radioactive" water has drawn its share of attention, very little of it positive. The...

The president of CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. is stepping in to oversee operations at Hanford's Plutonium Finishing Plant after the departure of vice president Jerry Long. Long no longer works at Hanford. "It's a sensitive issue, a personnel issue,...

In the May 2 Tribune, an editorial titled "Let's talk about communicating" appeared. While we recognize that good decision-making should be based on collaborative efforts, it is critical to have accurate facts and clarify the lack of communication that...

Foremost Farms, one of the state's largest dairy cooperatives, is closing a cheese plant and idling another plant indefinitely -- resulting in more than 100 employee layoffs. The Baraboo-based cooperative says it's closing a plant in Alma Center that...

SOUTH BEND -- Lou Demeter recently had the opportunity to travel into his past. Demeter, 89, of South Bend, walked the floors and gazed out the windows of Building 84, the huge old former Studebaker Corp. assembly plant on Lafayette Boulevard. He worked...