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Article: Swedish company Electrolux closing U.S. refrigerator plant; jobs moving to Mexico

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March 3, 2006
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AP Worldstream
03-03-2006
Dateline: GREENVILLE, Michigan
A refrigerator plant run by Sweden-based Electrolux is ending production.

The production line at the Greenville plant will run for at least part of Friday before shutting down for good, Tony Evans, a spokesman for Electrolux Home Products North America, told The Daily News of Greenville for a story published Thursday.

Electrolux announced in January 2004 that it was closing the 1.7 million-square-foot factory, whose 2,800 employees produced 1.6 million refrigerators annually under such brands as Frigidaire, Kenmore, White-Westinghouse, Gibson and Kelvinator.

Electrolux has been transferring ...

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