Article: Argos, Ind., Residents Struggle after Automotive Supplier Plant Closing.

By Kate Nagengast, South Bend Tribune, Ind. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 20--ARGOS, Ind.--Little evidence of Oxford Automotive Inc.'s glory days endures in this small town in north central Indiana.

The automotive supplier plant, which once employed nearly 500 people to stamp out rear doors, rocker panels and miscellaneous structural components for automotive giants like General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., is now a 385,151-square-foot shell of a factory.

The abandoned factory is dark and empty inside. Endless rows of slots that once held timecards hang unused since only three employees remain at the plant: a manager, a ...

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