LOVELAND, Colo.—Eastman Kodak Co. is shutting down two of the four manufacturing divisions at its Windsor plant and laying off up to 300 workers.
Company officials said Tuesday the printing plate manufacturing operation and a converting and packaging facility for motion picture films will close by the end of the year.
Plate production will be transferred to Kodak’s plant in Columbus, Ga., while the motion picture operation will move to Rochester, N.Y.
The company says some workers will be given the opportunity to take other positions at the Colorado facility or to transfer to other sites.
After the closures, the Windsor plant will have about 400 workers, and will focus on producing media for digital and photographic prints, thermal media for digital picture kiosks and color photographic paper used by photofinishing outlets, the company said.
“Obviously, we’re not happy about having layoffs,” said Rob Gray, site manager of the Windsor facility. “The performance of both these departments has been excellent, but it’s just that other plants had the capacity to consolidate.”
The Windsor plant employed about 1,600 people until 2007, when staffing was cut in half after the sale of its X-ray film processing unit.
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