Custom injection molder Basler Plastics LLC, part of Highland, Ill.-based Basler Electric Co., is closing its facility in San Marcos, Texas, due to "changing business" and permanently laying off 41 employees by the end of 2024.
Basler gave its employees notice of the closure on Sept. 4, with the estimated first date of separation being Nov. 4 and terminations expected to continue through Dec. 31, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification sent to the Texas Workforce Commission.
No union represents employees at the facility and there are no applicable bumping rights, Kameron Murphy, general counsel and vice president of corporate administration at Basler, said in the WARN letter.
In a Sept. 4 letter to its customers, Basler Electric President and Chief Operating Officer Kenneth Rhodes, wrote that the company "has decided to obtain its plastics components from external suppliers and exit the business of producing its own injection molded components."
"We are considering the next steps with the building as part of the closing plan," Murphy told Plastics News in a Linkedin message.
According to its website, Basler Electric's services include injection molding, mold building, prototyping, welding and decoration.
Its facility hosts 11 molding presses ranging from 22 to 400 tons of clamping force. It works with materials including ABS, glass-filled PET, polycarbonate/ polybutylene terephthalate, polyphenylene ether / polystyrene, PC/ABS, glass-filled nylon, acetal, glass-filled polypropylene, thermoplastic elastomers and PC.
Basler Plastics, previously known as Stellar Plastics Inc., was acquired by Basler Electric in 2012. Basler Electric has operations in Illinois, Texas, Colorado, Mexico and China.