A Colorado Springs business whose roots date back to just a few years after the city's 1871 founding will undergo a significant downsizing.
Sinton Dairy Foods will lay off 120 employees, or two-thirds of its local workforce, during the next two months as it exits the fresh milk production business and shifts to making extended-shelf-life milk, Sinton's owner announced Monday.
The Colorado Springs-based dairy will continue to produce cottage cheese and sour cream at its plant at 3801 Sinton Road, and immediately is beginning "a major investment" to produce a different kind of milk that will last three times longer on store shelves, said Fred Stern, a spokesman for Borden Dairy Co., Sinton's parent company in Dallas. The longer shelf life results from how the milk is pasteurized and packaged, he said.
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