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Emerson Motor Co. has laid off nearly a third of the workers at an electric motor plant in the southern Indiana town of Princeton, the St. Louis company said late last week.
Fifty-two of the 170 employees were put on temporary layoff after the market softened, Emerson said. The plant makes motors for hospital beds and other medical equipment.
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