Oct. 23--HIGH POINT -- A plant on English Road will join the long list of manufacturing facilities that have shut down operations in High Point.

Valspar will close its paint manufacturing facility at 1647 W. English Road, where about 30 employees will lose their jobs.

Production at the facility will shut down by the end of November, according to Mike Dougherty, a spokesperson at the company's corporate office in Minneapolis. A small staff will remain on hand to assist in the closing process until the end of the year.

Employees were notified of the closure in June, he said.

"The closure is related to the economic environment," Dougherty said. "It is in no way a reflection of how we view the contributions of the workers at this site."

Separation benefits were available to salaried employees, and severance for the hourly workers had been negotiated with the union leadership at the plant, he said.

Two other Valspar locations in High Point at 2137 Brevard Road and 1717 W. English Road will remain open, and Dougherty said this closing does not affect those plants.

The plant is one of several to be closed by the company in the past decade.

"It's part of the overall corporate efforts to adjust our operations to meet the realities of the global recession," he said.

He said the plant had been operated by Valspar since the mid-1980s.

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