Greenwood, South Carolina-based Fujifilm Manufacturing U.S.A. , a division of Tokyo, Japan-based Fujifilm, the Japanese multinational conglomerate, has announced the consolidation of four ot of five manufacturing facilities located in Greenwood, South Carolina.
The plants produce products such as QuickSnap recyclable cameras, inkjet photographic paper, color photographic paper, and digital printing plates.
The consolidation will impact 400 employees and will be completed by September 2022. The company will relocate its manufacturing to other company facilities or outsouce a portion of the work to third parties.
According to Fujifilm President Todd Croker, “The impact of COVID-19 on our respective businesses reinforced to us that we need to be even more focused on enhancing our capabilities to serve our customers from different manufacturing and distribution points throughout the world. This change provides us with more operating flexibility, and ensures that we are optimizing use of our available manufacturing capacity. Market economic trends and a declining demand for many of the products manufactured in Greenwood challenged us to focus on how we adapt our efforts to continue to build a global, sustainable approach for Fujifilm.”
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