Caterpillar to Close Thomasville Plant, Cut 250 Jobs
Monday, February 1st, 2016
Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar said Friday it plans to close five factories, including one in Georgia, as part of a broader downsizing that follows a brutal 2015 for the company.
The Illinois-based maker of bulldozers and mining equipment said it will eliminate a total of about 670 jobs as part of the restructuring. The closure include a fuel systems manufacturing plant in Thomasville, about 250 miles south of Atlanta, and four other plants in the U.S. and China. Corporate jobs in Illinois also are affected.
