DuPont to Cut 130 Jobs at Ohio Plant

DuPont will cut about 130 jobs at its plant in Circleville, Ohio. The town has a population of 13,500.

The layoffs will leave the auto parts and consumer electronics plant with 400 workers, and will be completed in August.

DuPont announced lat week it will cut 2,000 jobs, or 3.5% of its global workforce, as part of the company’s restructuring plan.

E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is an American chemical company founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont. Wilmington, Delaware-based DuPont is currently the world’s second largest chemical company.