BROOMFIELD, Colo.—Ball Corp. says it is shutting down manufacturing at two plastic packaging plants as it consolidates production.
Spokesman Scott McCarty says Ball’s Baldwinsville, N.Y., plant, which employs 113 people, is scheduled to end manufacturing by July 7 but will become a warehouse. The Watertown, Wis., plant, which employs 52 people, is scheduled to stop manufacturing by June 7.
McCarty says employees will receive severance and can apply for other jobs at Ball.
The Broomfield-based company expects to save about $12 million a year, beginning in 2010, from the move. It expects an after-tax charge of about $14 million in its second-quarter results from the change.
Ball has six other plastic packaging plants around the country.
