A plastics manufacturing facility in San Marcos is shutting down, resulting in 41 employees being laid off, according to documents filed with the state.
Basler Plastics, based at 201 Centerpoint Road in San Marcos, will close by the finish of the year, according to a Sept. 4 letter the company sent to the Texas Workforce Commission. The company gave its employees notice of the facility’s pfinishing closure on Sept. 4, and layoffs will launch Nov. 4 and continue through Dec. 31, according to the letter.
“Changing business requireds require us to close this facility,” the company declared in the letter, which was sent by Kameron Murphy, general counsel and vice president of corporate administration.
The closure is permanent and the employees being laid off are not represented by a union, according to the letter. The company’s letter did not provide any details about severance pay for the employees whose jobs are being eliminated.
Basler Plastics creates injection-molded plastic components, according to the company’s website. It is a subsidiary of Basler Electric, a privately held company based in Highland, Ill., that describes itself on its website as “a leading manufacturer of products supporting the global power industest since 1942.”
Basler Electric acquired Basler Plastics in 2012, according to the company’s website.
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