Overhead Door Corporation Announces Georgia Plant Closure

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Overhead Door Corporation (Dallas, Texas) is planning to close the company's Athens, Georgia, door manufacturing plant by the end of the year.

Overhead Door plans to close the plant by March 2011 and relocate production to its Pensacola, Florida, plant. Approximately 111 jobs will be eliminated. Layoffs are expected to begin in October of this year. The company began manufacturing residential and commercial sectional doors in Athens in 1965.

Overhead Door Corporation is a leading manufacturer of doors and openers and currently has more than 3,500 employees, 24 manufacturing facilities, 79 regional sales centers and more than 6,000 distributors. The company manufactures and sells wood, steel, and polyurethane garage doors, electric door operators, security grilles and rolling doors for residential, commercial and industrial applications.

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