{"id":472735,"date":"2026-02-16T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472735\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:13:08","slug":"160-workers-to-lose-jobs-as-comstock-township-factory-shuts-down-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472735\/","title":{"rendered":"160 workers to lose jobs as Comstock Township factory shuts down in March"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, Mich. \u2014 A Southwest Michigan manufacturing plant will be closing its doors next month, according to a document released by the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO).<\/p>\n

Grouper Acquisition Company, LLC which operates as Shiloh Industries, announced Feb. 2 that it will close its plant at 9000 E. Michigan Ave. in Comstock Township near Galesburg on March 31. <\/p>\n

As a result of the closure, 160 employees will lose their jobs, documents detailed. <\/p>\n

Positions eliminated include plant managers, engineers, material technicians, mechanics, maintenance workers, material handling coordinators and welders, according to LEO.<\/p>\n

A reason for the closure has not been reported.<\/p>\n

This WARN letter from the Michigan Dept. of Labor and Economic Opportunity details the closure of Grouper Acquisition Company, LLC, which operates as Shiloh Industries, in Galesburg, Mich. (LEO\/WWMT)<\/p>\n

Click here to view the PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n

News Channel 3 reached out to the corporate office for an interview, but was told the company had no comment at the time, and no arrangements for interviews would be made. <\/p>\n

Dura-Shiloh, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Mich., is a global mobility systems supplier that specializes in the design, engineering and manufacturing of BEV battery enclosures, park-lock actuators, lightweight structural systems, and laminated acoustic panels.<\/p>\n

The manufacturer has seven locations in the United States. <\/p>\n

In addition to Comstock Township, the company is shutting down its metal stamping facility in northern Indiana on March 31, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, Mich. \u2014 A Southwest Michigan manufacturing plant will be closing its doors next month, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-472735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}