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Manufacturer says adios to Downstate town. (Go/Dan Industries relocates to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico)
Crain's Chicago Business, December, 1996 by Goodwin-Neuhaus, Anne
Cost Factor sending 145 jobs to Mexico Downstate Peru is the scene of yet another Illinois factory loss to Mexico. One of the community's largest manufacturing facilities, Go/Dan Industries Inc., will close its doors Dec. 20. The facility, which manufactures after-market heater cores for cars and trucks, is owned by New Haven, Conn.-based TransPro Inc.
Go/Dan, which has projected 1996 sales of $135 million, will be absorbed into a TransPro factory in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The move means that 145 - primarily unskilled - workers will lose their jobs at the Peru facility, which has operated as Go/Dan Industries since 1990, but has existed under various names and ownerships since the early 1950s. According to Jeff Jackson, TransPro's vice-president of human...
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