Butterball To Close 600-Employee Meatpacking Plant In Montgomery
May 22, 2017 | 1 min to read
Butterball will shutter its Gusto meatpacking plant in Montgomery, where it employs about 600 full-time workers, marking another painful loss of jobs in the Aurora area.
The North Carolina-based company's announcement comes after Caterpillar announced last month it would close its manufacturing plant in Montgomery by the end of 2018, resulting in a loss of 800 jobs. Butterball acquired Gusto Packing Co. in 2013; now, most of the plant's products will be discontinued after the plant closes on or around July 17.
Butterball said it informed employees of the plant closing Thursday.
"Talk about a very hard one-two punch for all these families," said Chris Lauzen, chairman of the Kane County board, on the timing of the plant-closing announcements. "This is huge. It will be very painful for those families."
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