From the 9/13/06 Bucyrus Telegraph Forum:

 

 

Crestline plant to close

Move will cost about 170 jobs within 60 days

By Russ Kent

T-F staff

 

CRESTLINE -- About 170 workers at Creative Engineered Polymer Products, 900 S. Wiley St., will need to find new jobs soon.

 

The company, which provides plastic and injection molding services for the automotive, construction and medical industries, announced last week that it will cease operations in Crestline within 60 days...

 

 

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http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=307596

 

From the 10/20/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle:

 

 

Delphi supplier may cut workers

By RAYMOMND L. SMITH Tribune Chronicle

 

MIDDLEFIELD — Employees of the Creative Engineered Polymer Products LLC were told they could be out of jobs by Dec. 2.

 

Employees were given a Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification — or WARN letters — stating that the plant could be closing by then...

 

 

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http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=10159

 

From the 12/22/06 Ashtabula Star Beacon:

 

 

160 lose jobs as Middlefield plant closes

Creative Engineered Polymer Products will cease operations Dec. 29

By DORIS COOK

Staff Writer

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MIDDLEFIELD - - Hourly workers of Creative Engineered Polymer Products on Old State Road finished their last day of work with the company, Wednesday.

 

The factory is closing down on Dec. 29, when salaried employees have their last day.

 

CEPP, an Akron firm, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy papers in Stark County courts Sept. 20, according to Cindy Brumbaugh, the company's human resources director. Five plants, three in Ohio and two others, in Bishopville, S.C., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., will close during the next 10 days. The other Ohio CEPP plants closing are in Canton and Crestline. One hundred sixty employees are losing their jobs in Middlefield...

 

 

http://www.starbeacon.com/local/local_story_356073040