Production ends at company’s West Point manufacturing plant
WEST POINT, Miss. (AP) – A company that once was one of the largest employers in a north Mississippi city has ended production at a manufacturing plant.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that approximately 165 workers were affected by production ending Wednesday at the West Point plant owned by North Carolina-based Babcock & Wilcox.
An additional 50 workers are still helping with the “wind down” of operations at the plant, which made industrial boilers and related equipment.
Babcock & Wilcox had been operating in West Point since 1952, and its plant had around 700 employees in 1998.
Company spokesman Ryan Cornell said it hasn’t decided what it will do with the 250,000-square-foot property.
