Diamond Foods Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co. have called off their $1.5 billion deal for Diamond to buy the Pringles brand. Cereal maker Kellogg Co. is swooping and made a $2.7 billion deal to purchase the brand.A Paulding County, Ohio, manufacturer of glass for boats and construction equipment will continue the layoffs of 78 employees who were originally furloughed in November.
Taylor Made Glass Systems, a subsidiary of Gloversville, N.Y.-based Taylor Made Group, notified the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services this week that the layoffs would continue at least a few more months.
The company initially expected the layoffs to be short.
"We had all expected that we’d be back up and running at some notable amount," John Schoonover, Taylor Made’s director of glass operations, said Thursday. "Unfortunately, we’re running at about 50 percent."
Taylor Made makes glass that its family-owned parent company uses in hatches and windshields for boats, vents for tractor-trailers and enclosures for off-road construction equipment.
Schoonover declined to say what the plant’s non-union production workers are paid.
"We’re not at the bottom, we’re not at the top," he said.
The plant still has 72 employees making glass at the plant.
Schoonover said he hopes to call the others back in the summer.
"We’re starting to see a little solidity to the orders we’re getting," he said.
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