Alexander Dennis Closing Nappanee And Peru Facilities
December 14, 2021 at 2:31 a.m.
By David [email protected]
The closing of the automobile and other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers facilities will affect 192 workers.
At both locations, the employment terminations are expected to begin Feb. 4 and continue through May 6, according to a letter on the Workforce Development website from Seth Thompson, Vogel Law Firm, Bismarck, N.D., to Nappanee Mayor Phil Jenkins and Peru Mayor Miles Hewitt, dated May 1. None of the affected employees are represented by a labor union, and there are no bumping rights with respect to these terminations.
Positions affected in Nappanee range from 80 assemblers and 18 electricians to painters, a welder, a warehouse supervisor and others. The 24 positions affected at Peru include 18 assemblers, four parts dock, one quality control and one welder.
According to the company’s website at www.alexander–dennis.com, brothers John and Raymond Dennis established themselves in the town of Guildford, making bicycles, in 1895. Three years later, they launch their own motorized tricycle and by 1901 are producing cars.
In 2017, Alexander Dennis took full control of its North American body assembly operation in Nappanee, which had previously operated as a joint venture. Together wish chassis assembly in Toronto, this gives Alexander Dennis the capacity to grow the popularity of its double deck buses in the United States and Canada.
According to www.stockwatch.com on July 20, “Earlier this year, NFI conducted a thorough review of all of the company's Canadian and U.S. manufacturing locations and today announces the integration of the ADI North American manufacturing locations into NFI's existing facilities. As a result, the company will close the ADI North American manufacturing locations, including the facilities in Vaughan, Ont. (to close in October 2021); and Nappanee and Peru, Ind. (to close in Q1 2022). Future manufacturing of ADL double-deck buses in North America will be carried out at existing NFI manufacturing locations. Certain finance, sales, commercial operations, procurement and service staff will remain as part of NFI's North American bus and coach business to support existing customers.”
The closing of the automobile and other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers facilities will affect 192 workers.
At both locations, the employment terminations are expected to begin Feb. 4 and continue through May 6, according to a letter on the Workforce Development website from Seth Thompson, Vogel Law Firm, Bismarck, N.D., to Nappanee Mayor Phil Jenkins and Peru Mayor Miles Hewitt, dated May 1. None of the affected employees are represented by a labor union, and there are no bumping rights with respect to these terminations.
Positions affected in Nappanee range from 80 assemblers and 18 electricians to painters, a welder, a warehouse supervisor and others. The 24 positions affected at Peru include 18 assemblers, four parts dock, one quality control and one welder.
According to the company’s website at www.alexander–dennis.com, brothers John and Raymond Dennis established themselves in the town of Guildford, making bicycles, in 1895. Three years later, they launch their own motorized tricycle and by 1901 are producing cars.
In 2017, Alexander Dennis took full control of its North American body assembly operation in Nappanee, which had previously operated as a joint venture. Together wish chassis assembly in Toronto, this gives Alexander Dennis the capacity to grow the popularity of its double deck buses in the United States and Canada.
According to www.stockwatch.com on July 20, “Earlier this year, NFI conducted a thorough review of all of the company's Canadian and U.S. manufacturing locations and today announces the integration of the ADI North American manufacturing locations into NFI's existing facilities. As a result, the company will close the ADI North American manufacturing locations, including the facilities in Vaughan, Ont. (to close in October 2021); and Nappanee and Peru, Ind. (to close in Q1 2022). Future manufacturing of ADL double-deck buses in North America will be carried out at existing NFI manufacturing locations. Certain finance, sales, commercial operations, procurement and service staff will remain as part of NFI's North American bus and coach business to support existing customers.”
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