{"id":60880,"date":"2026-06-03T21:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/?p=60880"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:13:02","slug":"swiss-krono-to-lay-off-130-workers-at-barnwell-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/swiss-krono-to-lay-off-130-workers-at-barnwell-plant.html","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Krono to Lay Off 130 Workers at Barnwell Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Swiss Krono, LLC<\/strong> has announced plans to permanently lay off <strong>130 employees<\/strong> at its laminate flooring and fiberboard plant in <strong>Barnwell, South Carolina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was disclosed through a <strong>Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, WARN, filing<\/strong> submitted on May 12. The layoffs are expected to take effect on <strong>July 11, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss Krono has operated in Barnwell since <strong>2005<\/strong> and has made major investments in the facility over the years. In 2016, the company broke ground on a <strong>$230 million HDF mill and laminate flooring production expansion<\/strong>. Since 2020, Swiss Krono has also invested around <strong>$400 million<\/strong> in capital equipment to vertically integrate MDF production at the site.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs come at a time when the flooring and wood-based panel industries continue to face pressure from weaker construction activity, changing demand conditions and rising production costs.<\/p>\n<p>The company has not yet shared further details on how the layoffs may affect future operations at the Barnwell facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Krono, LLC has announced plans to permanently lay off 130 employees at its laminate flooring and fiberboard plant in Barnwell, South Carolina. The decision was disclosed through a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, WARN, filing submitted on May 12. The layoffs are expected to take effect on July 11, 2026. Swiss Krono has operated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2015,254,179],"tags":[8864,8863,8838,8530,7451,8865,8866],"class_list":["post-60880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mdf-chipboard","category-headline-news","category-journal","tag-hdf-en","tag-krono-swiss-en","tag-laminate","tag-mdf-en","tag-swiss-krono-en","tag-warn-en","tag-worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/swisskronologo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60881,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60880\/revisions\/60881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}