Seneca Foods will be closing a plant in Marion, Wayne County which employs 45 people.
The company’s Chief Financial Officer, Tim Benjamin, says that the reason is due to the fact that canned vegetables have been in steady decline in terms of consumption in recent years, so the demand for producing those cans has dropped.
He says besides any severance package for the affected employees, Seneca Foods will work to see if it can place some of those workers in other positions.
The cans being made in Marion will now be manufacturing at the company’s plant in Wisconsin.
Seneca Foods continues other operations in the Finger Lakes including its headquarters in Marion which employs about 75 people. It also has facilities in Geneva and in Leicester.
