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Article: End of a printing era; Work is going to Asia.(NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2009
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Byline: Lisa Eckelbecker
WEBSTER - Slowly but precisely, the rumbling machines that turn plain fabric into riots of color at Cranston's textile plant are going quiet.
The 450,000-square-foot facility, which once bustled with about 700 workers and turned out 60 million yards to 70 million yards of printed cloth a year, stopped printing fabric last week and will wind down finishing operations this week. The employees - about 30 will get new jobs in distribution and customer service but about 70 others will be laid off - have already started to scatter.
"That's it, the end of an era," said James M. Peloquin, a 32-year employee who worked his way ...
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