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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowCummins Engine Co. will lay off more than 200 workers in Columbus.
Spokesman Mark Land said the company will
idle 195 workers at its fuel systems plant by Jan. 2 because of a decline in demand for heavy-duty truck engines.
Land says customers have been buying more trucks with older engines instead of buying new and more expensive trucks that
meet new government emissions standards that take effect on Jan. 1.
He says 22 other workers who manufacture heavy-duty
cylinder heads and blocks will take a voluntary temporary leave until sometime in the second quarter of 2010.
Cummins
also will lay off 17 workers on a new light-duty diesel project.
Earlier this month, Cummins said it would lay
off 400 workers at its Jamestown, N.Y., Engine Plant as it cuts production from 500 engines a day to about 100.
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