LYNNWOOD – National Industrial Concepts Inc. is closing a local sheet metal fabrication plant as the company consolidates its facilities in this area and expands into Tennessee.
Scott Smith, president and chief executive officer at National Industrial, said about two-thirds of the 75 jobs at the Lynnwood plant are moving to the company’s headquarters in King County.
“We will be moving a lot of the work in Lynnwood over to Woodinville,” Smith said. The company has unused space at its Woodinville plant now, he added.
Another dozen workers at the facility on 202nd Street SW will relocate to Galatin, Tenn.
That’s where National Industrial has leased an industrial building, with plans to begin metal fabrication work there before the year’s end. The new facility, which also will employ about 75 people, is being set up to serve a major customer in that area, Smith said.
National Industrial makes sheet metal parts for companies in the medical device, electronics and transportation industries. It took over the Lynnwood facility about four years ago, when it bought out Linton Industries, which had operated there for more than two decades.
Smith said much of the fabrication equipment at the Lynnwood plant will be sent to the new one in Tennessee.
The company may not leave Lynnwood for good, however. As business ramps up over the next year or so, National Industrial might open a small distribution center there, Smith said.
The decision is good news for Gallatin, a suburb of Nashville, Tenn. Another company in that city recently announced it will close its plant there, resulting in the layoff of 450 people.
Reporter Eric Fetters: 425-339-3453 or fetters@heraldnet.com.
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