DuPont’s Spruance Plant makes materials such as Kevlar, Nomex and Tyvek. (Photo by Michael Schwartz)
Industrial giant DuPont will lay off more than 60 of its Richmond employees as part of a restructuring and cost-cutting plan.
The company notified the state that it would eliminate 64 jobs at its Spruance Plant on the heels of an announcement last month that 1,500 workers would be shed from the company globally.
DuPont and its units have about 3,000 employees in the Richmond region. That includes about 2,400 workers at the Spruance Plant. The facility, which sits on 400 acres off Commerce Road in Chesterfield County, manufacturers high-tech materials such as Kevlar, Nomex and Tyvek.
DuPont spokeswoman Lisa Randall said the 64 affected workers in Richmond are full-time, salaried employees in non-union, non-manufacturing positions.
Some of the positions will be eliminated by the end of the year, Randall said. Others will be cut in 2013.
DuPont, which has 70,000 employees worldwide, announced in late October a plan to cut 1,500 jobs over the next 18 months. Those cuts, in addition to other restructuring efforts, are expected to save the company about $450 million.
The company’s other Richmond facilities include its adjacent Zytel plant, its James River Plant off Jefferson Davis Highway and the DuPont Teijin Films plant in Hopewell.
No employees at those other locations are affected by the layoffs, Randall said.
DuPont’s Spruance Plant makes materials such as Kevlar, Nomex and Tyvek. (Photo by Michael Schwartz)
Industrial giant DuPont will lay off more than 60 of its Richmond employees as part of a restructuring and cost-cutting plan.
The company notified the state that it would eliminate 64 jobs at its Spruance Plant on the heels of an announcement last month that 1,500 workers would be shed from the company globally.
DuPont and its units have about 3,000 employees in the Richmond region. That includes about 2,400 workers at the Spruance Plant. The facility, which sits on 400 acres off Commerce Road in Chesterfield County, manufacturers high-tech materials such as Kevlar, Nomex and Tyvek.
DuPont spokeswoman Lisa Randall said the 64 affected workers in Richmond are full-time, salaried employees in non-union, non-manufacturing positions.
Some of the positions will be eliminated by the end of the year, Randall said. Others will be cut in 2013.
DuPont, which has 70,000 employees worldwide, announced in late October a plan to cut 1,500 jobs over the next 18 months. Those cuts, in addition to other restructuring efforts, are expected to save the company about $450 million.
The company’s other Richmond facilities include its adjacent Zytel plant, its James River Plant off Jefferson Davis Highway and the DuPont Teijin Films plant in Hopewell.
No employees at those other locations are affected by the layoffs, Randall said.