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Trenton company pulling out; 400 to lose jobs Edgefielddaily.com web posted July 27, 2005 TRENTON - The Town of Trenton, who just celebrated the opening of Trenton Plastic Products and the creation of 100 new jobs which located in the former Carlyle plant, is now bracing for a net loss in jobs and taxes. Components Manufacturing Company (CMC) is closing their doors and will leave almost 400 workers without jobs. Robert Long, of the Economic Development Partnership, said CMC employs 279 full time workers and about 110 part time employees and will end manufacturing by September and will be out of the building by October. “We are going to try to remarket the building,” Mr. Long stated adding that Shaw Industries actually owns the building and CMC had been operating under a lease for the past five years. The company is said to be consolidating the plant into their Milledgeville Georgia facility. They have been in Trenton for five years Mr. Long stated. “We are very sad to get the news,” Trenton Mayor Helen Summers said, “It came as a total shock,” stating the town was given a letter about the closing. The impact of the closing will have far reaching effects according to Mayor Summers; those effects are not just measured in the job losses but the revenues that were paid to the town through taxes. Edgefield County Auditor Bill Gilchrist said CMC was going to have a “huge” impact on the budget of the town as well as the county. The building, owned by Shaw Industries, will still stay on the tax roll but the machinery and inventory will come off next year. According to tax records CMC’s tax bill for machinery was $13,946.46 to the town, “that’s coming off,” Mr. Gilchrist said. The revenues paid into the county coffers will also take a hit due to the disappearance of $56,383.34. Almost $34,000 of that being funds that go to the schools Mr. Gilchrist said. The tax bill for the building for the town and county is $10, 799.25 and $53,471.46 respectively. Mr. Long stated the Economic Development Partnership hopes the building would not stay vacant too long since CMC is leaving the building in better shape than they received it in, “They have done a lot of work to the building, it’s really in good shape,” he said. Mayor Summers concurred adding that CMC had opened the building up by removing walls and replacing lighting and painting. “We hope it won’t take too long,” to replace the company the mayor said. Return to Main Page
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