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October 12, 2006
NEW MARTINSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) -- Bayer MaterialSciences plans to eliminate about 230 jobs at its New Martinsville plant next summer.
Plant manager Jim Covington said yesterday that Bayer MaterialSciences is closing a facility that produces a chemical used to make plastic June 30. Covington says the facility couldn't compete with lower-cost Gulf Coast plants that produce similar materials. Bayer shut down another New Martinsville plant that makes the same chemical in 2001.
Weztel County Chamber of Commerce President Don Riggenbach says the layoffs will hit the community hard. Riggenbach says he wishes the area could come up with some way to help the economy.
The cuts will reduce employment at the plant to about 350, down from a high of 12-hundred.
The International Chemical Workers Union says 170 of the people who will lose their jobs are union workers. Another 60 are salaried employees.
The future of the rest of Bayer's New Martinsville operations are a bit more secure. In August, the company said it plans to spend up to 35 million dollars to modernize the plant.
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