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Article: IN BRIEF.(Business)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2009
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Albany International closing Tennessee plant
MENANDS -- Albany International Corp. is closing its Portland, Tenn., factory within the next year.
The factory, which makes forming fabric used in paper mills, employs 156 people.
Albany International, which makes belts and fabrics used in paper manufacturing, has been consolidating its facilities in Europe and North America as the paper industry has been shutting down mills in those areas.
South Carolina and Wisconsin remain the only places in the United States where the company still has paper machine clothing manufacturing.
-- Larry Rulison
First Niagara Financial to ...