Kilgore Plant Plans Layoffs
Posted/updated on: February 21, 2017 at 10:19 am
KILGORE — As many as 70 people could be laid off within a month from a Kilgore manufacturing plant as its parent consolidates operations in Troy. According to the Longview News-Journal and KETK, Dallas-based PermianLide is closing its Permian Tank & Manufacturing Inc. plant in Kilgore, economic development officials said Thursday. PermianLide President Howard Seely was not available for comment. The plant at 3405 S. Henderson Blvd., began in 1976 as Chevelier Tank. PermianLide had not notified the Texas Workforce Commission as of Thursday about the layoffs and pending plant closings, spokeswoman Lisa Givens said. The commission requires notifications if a Texas company plans to cut 50 or more jobs.
Martha Woodruff, director of Workforce Development Continuing Education at Kilgore College, urged Permian Tank employees and others who lose their jobs to apply for one of three retraining programs at Kilgore College: commercial drivers license, advanced welding and industrial electrical technology. The college is making the programs available tuition free to displaced workers courtesy of a $500,000 federal grant that arrived in October.
