200 Jobs Cut at Cummins Inc.

200 workers will lose their jobs at Cummins Inc., a Columbus, Indiana plant. The plant primarily manufactures diesel engines, power generation equipment, power systems, gasoline engines and custom power supplies. After Friday one shift of 400 workers (the day shift) will remain in their jobs at the plant now that Chrysler has completed its production ramp up for the 2010 Ram pickup truck and additional employees are no longer needed to deal with additional workloads. There is a decreased demand for product. The company doesn’t know how long the layoffs will last.

Cummins provides services to customers in 190 countries through a network of distributors and dealers. In 2009 the company had a net income of $428 million on sales of $10.8 billion.