DELPHOS — Approximately 70 Toledo Molding and Die hourly employees will have August off after receiving temporary layoff notices this week.
Operations Manager Jack Ruhe said the company will start recalling the workers at the end of August.
“We were just awarded several significant contracts from our competitors that we will start on in September and we will have significant content in the new Ford F-150 pick up trucks, so these workers will be coming back very soon,” Ruhe said. “The overall slowdown in truck and SUV sales has prompted us to trim down the work force for about four weeks.”
Toledo Molding and Die operated two plants in Delphos until October 2007, when the company’s No. 1 plant closed on Gressel Drive.
They currently have 163 hourly and approximately 35 salaried employees.