plant shutdown
Production facility closure
A plant shutdown is the temporary or permanent closure of an industrial facility—a factory, power station, refinery, or manufacturing operation.
Shutdowns may be planned for maintenance and safety inspections, or forced by economic conditions, labor disputes, or regulatory action.
The plant shutdown idled three thousand workers.
They scheduled the shutdown for August when demand is lowest.
- closureSense of emotional resolution
- haltComplete sudden stop
- layoffTermination without cause
- pink slipsEmployment termination documents
- factoryIndustrial production facility
assembly line · idle · mothball · outage · going dark · termination · workers · unemployment · machinery · downtime · cessation · lights out · picket · strike · maintenance · turbine · reactor · nuclear meltdown
- industrial declinedeindustrialization, factory closures, factory closure, manufacturing decline, rust belt
- labor strikeswalkouts, walkout, picket lines, strike action, coal strike
- mothballinglayup, deactivation
plant shutdowncommissioning
Ordering work to be made
ramp-up · scaling up · going online · grand opening · ribbon cutting
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