Northeast Regional Plant Watch: Companies to Pull the Plug on 25 Facilities by Year's End

SUGAR LAND--July 1, 2008--Reported by Annette Kreuger, Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Looking forward from January 2008 through the end of the year, a recent analysis of Industrial Info's Industrial Plant Database reveals that the Northeast has 25 plants that have either already closed or are scheduled to do so. General Motors (NYSE:GM) (Detroit, Michigan), is closing an aluminum powertrain casting plant in Massena, New York, and Pharma giant Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) (New York, New York) is expected to shut a production plant in Parsippany, New Jersey.