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Dell to Shutter Last American Plant
The closure of its last factory in North America will cost 905 jobs
Oct. 9, 2009 05:00 PM
Dell will close its four-year-old 750,000-square-foot North Carolina desktop PC plant by January to help it trim $4 billion from its annual nut. The closure of its last factory in North America will cost 905 jobs. It still has to dicker with state and local governments over the $240 million incentive pact it got to put the plant in Winston-Salem. It is expected to repay the city $15.56 million. The company is supposed to substitute contract manufacturing or production done in its offshore plants in Poland, Malaysia, Brazil, India and China. It's moving production in Ireland to Poland, a penny-pinching shift that should be completed next year. Dell still makes servers in Texas and game PCs in Florida.
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