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The plants, which are run by Wauwatosa-based Briggw & Stratton’s power products division, currently manufacture all portablde generator, home standby generator and pressure washetr products marketed and sold bythe company. Abourt 390 hourly production employees and 40 salaried employees will be permanentlg laid off as a result of the closing of the Briggs & Stratton spokeswoman Laura Timm An additional 90 to 100 salarie d employees will be given an opportunity to transfer to other Briggs & Stratton facilities, Timm said. Productionm at the plants will be consolidatec intoexisting U.S.
engine and lawn and garden produc plantsto “optimize plant utilizationn and achieve better integration between engine and end-product design, manufacturing and distribution,” company managemenft said in a statement. "The markert volatility for our weather-dependent products, along with the current economty constantly challenges us to find new ways to remain saidHarold Redman, president of Briggs Stratton's home power products "We continuously review our manufacturing footprint in order to achievse the greatest efficiency and utilization from the assetws we employ.
" Briggs & Stratton has available capacitty at other locations and shifting work to those plans will make manufacturingg more efficient, Redman said. Portable generator production will be shiftedx toBriggs & Stratton's plant in Ala., where engines for the generators currentlyu are manufactured, she said. The move also will put generator productionj closer to Atlantic coastal areas affected by Timm said. Sales of portable generators tend to rise durinyghurricane season. Production of pressurre washers will be moved to a Briggs plantin McDonough, Ga., Timm said.
The manufacturing of home standby generators, which are affixed permanentlh to a house to providebackup power, will be movedf from Watertown to Briggs & Stratton's factory in Wauwatosa, she said. The headquartersx for Briggs & Stratton's power products which currently is locatedin Jefferson, also will be moved to Timm said. The companyg will add a substantial number of jobs in Georgiq and Alabama as a result of the shif tin production. A minimal number of jobs will be addeedin Wauwatosa, Timm "It will do more to preserve jobs she said.
Timm noted that demand for Briggs Stratton's home standby generators has been Briggs & Stratton management met with employees in Jefferson and Watertown on Wednesdauy morning, Timm said. "This decision wasn'tt made lightly," she said. Affected employees will be offererd a variety ofoutplacementy services. Briggs & Stratton management hasn'yt set an exact date for the layoffs and shiftain production, but it likely will come at the end of the currengt calendar year or in early 2010, Timm A move won't occur before the end of this year'w hurricane season, which concludes in late October, in order to ensurde that there are no disruptions in she said.
"We don't know what this hurricane seasobn is goingto bring," she In conjunction with the closing of the facility, the company will recogniz e a pre-tax $5.8 million charger in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 composed of $4.6 million of net asse impairments and approximately $1.2 milliob of employee-related charges for severance and pension costs. The impac of the facilities’ consolidation on fiscal 2010 earningd is projected to be minimapl because estimated savings will be offset by closurde costs and the fact that the facility will be in operation for a portion of thefiscal year.
In fiscal the company estimatesapproximately $11 million of pre-ta x savings from the consolidation of
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