Mack Trucks to lay off 300 at Pennsylvania assembly plant

MACUNGIE, Pa. — Mack Trucks plans to lay off 305 staff at its assembly plant north of Philadelphia, the firm talked about Wednesday.

Mack blamed the layoffs at its Lower Macungie Township plant on a downturn in the heavy-responsibility truck market. They’ll take cease at the head of February, The (Allentown) Morning Name reported. The cuts signify about 13% of the plant’s payroll.

“We remorse having to take this run, nonetheless we operate in a cyclical market, and after two years of extraordinarily excessive volumes, now we want to adapt to diminished market seek recordsdata from,” talked about Mack spokesman Christopher Heffner.

Employees, most of whom belong to the auto staff union, had been told of the suggestions Wednesday.

The cuts had been expected after Mack talked about final month that it would want to slack production to address diminished seek recordsdata from. Mack expects the North American truck market to be down nearly 30% this year.

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This memoir has been corrected to existing that the plant is in Lower Macungie Township, no longer Lower Macungue Township.