Shutdown of Sapa in Morris, IL
Sapa Profiles North America announces the shutdown of its plant in Morris, IL in an effort to better serve its customers with the latest and best extrusion technology.
The Morris plant has been running on low volumes and low profitability for the last several quarters due to historically low demand in the markets it serves. During this time, Morris has successfully developed and launched unique customer solutions in several markets. Sapa can now provide customers with even better service and extrusion solutions from other facilities available as a result of its recent acquisition of Indalex.
Tim Stubbs, Business Area President Sapa Profiles North America, said, "While this was a difficult decision, and we realize change is never easy for our employees or our customers, we are convinced that we can enhance our product and service offerings to customers currently being served out of Morris."
Charlie Straface, the General Manager for Sapa Industrial Extrusions said, "We will begin working with our customers immediately to quickly communicate the best fit for their product and service needs. Our team will be partnering with our customers to source their material at our other facilities."
The Morris plant closure is expected to occur on or about November 1, 2009 and will affect all of the 79 employees who work there.
For further information, please contact Charlie Straface. General Manager of Sapa Industrial Extrusions at +1 773-380-7696 or Robert J. Rubicky, Director of Human Resources / Sapa Profiles North America at +1 412-299-2291.
Sapa is the largest aluminium profiles producer in the world. The Sapa Group develops, manufactures and markets value-added profiles, profile-based building systems and heat exchanger strip in the light-weight material aluminium. Sapa is divided in the business areas Sapa Profiles, Sapa Building System and Sapa Heat Transfer and is represented in Europe, North America and Asia. The business concept is built on close cooperation with customers. Sapa is the leading company in its field of operation and have customers in the building, transport-, engineering, telecom and home and office industry. The Sapa Group has combined net sales of 32,500 MSEK and 12,000 employees. Sapa is part of Norwegian Orkla ASA.