Article: California Disk-Drive Maker Seagate Technologies to Lay Off More than 1,100.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

May 27--Seagate Technologies Inc. continues to reorganize and streamline its operations, with the company confirming Friday that it will close two plants and lay off more than 1,100 employees.

The plant closings -- in Anaheim and Mexicali, Mexico -- are part of an ongoing restructuring of the Scotts Valley company that was announced last September. The two plants manufacture the components that are used in the magnetic disks for Seagate's disk-drive products.

Although the company continues to operate product development and technology centers in the United States -- including facilities in Santa Clara, Colorado, and Minnesota -- most of its manufacturing ...

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