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Valmont lays off 41 in McCook

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By The Associated Press

Thursday, Dec 04, 2008 - 09:11:05 pm CST

McCOOK  — Valmont Industries has laid off 41 employees at its McCook plant.

Investor relations manager Jeff Laudsin said employees were laid off Wednesday because of the changed agricultural economy and decreasing crop prices.

Valmont manufactures steel and aluminum utility poles, specialty structures like cell phone towers and, in the McCook plant, farm equipment such as irrigation systems.

Laudin said the layoffs were based on seniority. Laudin estimated about 200 employees worked at the plant.

Last month, the Parker Hannifin plant in McCook laid off 24 employees after 28 others took a voluntary layoff in October. Parker produces rubber hose and rubber compound.


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TP wrote on December 4, 2008 10:35 pm:
" This is just a start. If the Big 3 don't get help. There could be thousands of Nebraskans laid off. "

 JoBeth wrote on December 5, 2008 10:18 pm:
" After the tornadoes that went through Hamilton County last summer, we were told that companies where no longer taking order for pivots unless you could wait until 2010 for a pivot. The demand is that great. Now they are shutting down and farmers are still waiting for their pivots. "

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