plant shutdowns
Industrial facility cessations
Plant shutdowns are temporary or permanent closures of manufacturing facilities or industrial operations.
A temporary shutdown may occur for scheduled maintenance, retooling, or seasonal slowdown: The auto plant shutdown lasted two weeks while they installed new equipment.
Permanent shutdowns typically result from economic pressures, relocation, or obsolescence, often devastating local employment: The plant shutdown cost the town three thousand jobs.
- closureSense of emotional resolution
- pink slipsEmployment termination documents
- layoffsMass job eliminations
- laid offDismissed from employment
- factoryIndustrial production facility
factory floor · assembly line · idle · downsizing · skeleton crew · unemployment · workers · furlough · mothballed · production · assembly · manufacturing · going out of business · strike · recession · outsourcing · severance · picket
- industrial declinedeindustrialization, factory closures, factory closure, manufacturing decline, rust belt
- Rust BeltDetroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Gary, Youngstown
plant shutdownscommissioning
Ordering work to be made
grand openings · ribbon cuttings · reopenings · groundbreakings · reactivations
plant shutdownsexpansions
Increases in size
capital investments · new construction · scaling up · market entry
plant shutdownsexpansions
Increases in size
industrial growth · capital investments · industrial development · reindustrialization · onshoring
plant, plants, planted, planting, planter, planters, plantation, plantations, implant