WINDSOR TOWNSHIP \u2014 Engineered Materials Solutions has announced it is permanently closing its northern Berks County location and will lay off its staff of 58, starting in January.<\/p>\n
Engineered Materials Solutions, 600 Valley Road in Windsor Township, has filed a WARN notice with the state department of Labor and Industry \u2014 notifying officials of its intent.<\/p>\n
The layoffs are expected to begin \u201con or about\u201d January 2026, and will be finalized by the end of October, according to the notice.<\/p>\n
According to a letter from CEO Paul Duffy, Engineered Materials Solutions \u201cwill be shutting down, ceasing operations and permanently terminating all of our employees\u201d at the Berks facility.<\/p>\n
According to Duffy\u2019s letter, dated Nov. 14 \u2014 each employee subject to the layoff will receive regular pay and benefits through their termination date.<\/p>\n
The WARN Act requires employees to give a 60-day notice before closing plants or conducting mass layoffs, according to the Department of Labor & Industry\u2019s WARN notification website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Engineered Materials Solutions\u2019 Berks facility was formerly the headquarters for Hood & Co. and was acquired by Engineered Materials Solutions in 2008. The location fabricates and assembles Thermostatic Bimetal parts for electrical, automotive and industrial applications, according to information on the company\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Berks location is one of five company locations for Engineered Materials Solutions, which is headquartered in Attleboro, Mass. Additional locations include Baoying, China; Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Shanghai, China. Engineered Materials Solutions is part of the Wickeder Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINDSOR TOWNSHIP \u2014 Engineered Materials Solutions has announced it is permanently closing its northern Berks County location and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,60,182,28,128,130,129,706,31602],"class_list":{"0":"post-57469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-top-stories-reg","16":"tag-windsor-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}