Hillenbrand Inc.'s DME unit is closing facilities in Windsor, Ontario, and Greenville, Mich., according to sources.
The news comes about two months after the company announced plans to trim the workforce in its Molding Technology Solutions unit by 5 percent.
The company did not respond to questions from Plastics News.
A source told PN that employees in DME's Greenville plant were told a few weeks ago that facility will close at the end of May. The Daily News in Greenville reported March 29 that it had obtained correspondence from plant management to employees confirming the closing.
The newspaper reported that Montcalm Economic Alliance Director Jakob Bigard confirmed the news. The Daily News also reported that DME officials did not return requests for comments.
A source also told Plastics News that DME's mold base manufacturing facility in Windsor will close at the end of April.
Batesville, Ind.-based Hillenbrand, which is publicly traded, announced plans in a Feb. 6 earnings call to cut its workforce by about 5 percent in its injection molding and hot runner equipment unit and shrink its footprint.
President and CEO Kimberly Ryan said then that the company faces softening demand and more pricing pressure globally in that segment.
"The magnitude of that ends up being in kind of the 5 percent of workforce size," Ryan said at the time. She added that there were "a couple of opportunities for cost rationalization and simplification from a site perspective that we will also be engaging in," but the company did not give details on which sites were candidates for closure.
The MTS unit includes Milacron injection molding technology, DME mold components and Mold-Masters hot runner brands. The unit reported a 16 percent drop in first-quarter sales, to $205 million, compared with the same period a year earlier. The company's first quarter ended Dec. 31.