Pliant axing four plants, moving lines. From: Plastics News | Date: May 5, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Frank Antosiewicz

Pliant Corp. is continuing to reorganize its film manufacturing operations, with plans to close four more plants while it upgrades 100 million pounds of capacity at other locations.

Plants being closed are in Deerfield, Mass.; Dalton, Ga.; Harrington, Del.; and Newport News, Va., according to an April 29 news release. Last year, Pliant closed plants in Langley, British Columbia, and Barrie, Ontario.

The combination of plan...