PHILPS announced the closure of a lighting plant in North Carolina

[LED] - according to foreign media "Triangle Business Journal" (The Triangle Business Journal) reported that PHILPS announced plans to close the lighting factory is located in Parker Pender County in North carolina. The plant will be officially closed in September 2016, is expected to have 58 employees affected.

The plant is the second plant in North Carolina, PHILPS shut down, and the company announced the closure of a lighting plant in Henderson, about five months ago.

"Due to the continued rapid change in the lighting industry, PHILPS must continue to achieve synergies, and improve operational efficiency in order to remain flexible and competitive," the company spokesman Talley Summerlin wrote in an e-mail. "That's why PHILPS has gradually stopped production at the North Carolina processing plant. "

According to the company in North Carolina, the Ministry of Commerce, the notice of the plant's equipment will be relocated to another PHILPS factory in the United states. The company did not disclose the specific name of the factory.

"As far as possible reasonable arrangements for employees to leave the date," written by PHILPS lighting North America's human resources director Elvira Bisignano in December 2nd signed a document.

In July, North Carolina, said PHILPS will close in Vance County factories and lay off 50 employees. The plant was acquired in 2011 by PHILPS Optimum Lighting, the main production of energy-saving fluorescent lamp lighting.

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