Brooklyn Products to phase out operations
By Stacey Creasy
cnhi News Service
BREMEN � Brooklyn Products will be closing its doors
in Bremen, but not anytime in the near future.
Brooklyn Products is a Michigan based company that produces Urethane foam products for industrial, advertising, specialty, and novelty use.
Officials at the Bremen plant said they will be phasing out production locally over the next six to 12 months.
Brooklyn Products, which employs 30 to 35 people, will be moving the plant back to its original home, Brooklyn, Mich., according to Robert Linenfelser,
President and CEO of Brooklyn Products.
Company employees said Linenfelser delivered the news to the workforce.
�We do not have a complete timetable for the move but believe it will be sometime in the next six to 12 months,� Linenfelser said. �We will encourage everyone to apply for open positions in the Brooklyn, Michigan facility, as there will be positions available.�
Until the company settles on a moving date, production will continue at the Bremen plant.
Linenfelser decided to build the Bremen building in 1985 when the automotive aspect of his business continued to boom in Michigan. He moved Brooklyn Products to Bremen and opened an automotive plant in Brooklyn.
Now the automotive plant is Brooklyn is being sold, Linenfelser has decided to take his original business back home. He said it was purely a business decision.
Linenfelser knows the hard working people that have passed through his plant over the past 17 years have helped put his company on the map and made them one of the leading manufactures of advertising specialty and novelty items.
�Breaking up our extended family brings great pain to me and my heart goes out to all involved,� Linenfelser added.
Duwaine Elliott, director of operations in Bremen, said the local job market is strong enough to absorb the Brooklyn Products employees when production ends, but he hates to see the jobs leave town.
Last year Bremen Bearing, one of the highest paying employers in Bremen, pulled up stakes and moved to Plymouth in order to have a facility large enough to handle the company�s expansion.
�You hate to see any jobs go,� Elliott stated. �Even if it is a place that employs five people, you hate to lose jobs that will not be back. There is enough work in Bremen those people will be able to find something.�
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