{"id":1347,"date":"2019-09-27T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2019-09-27T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:42:22","slug":"henderson-county-official-continental-plans-to-move-fletcher-plant-operations-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/henderson-county-official-continental-plans-to-move-fletcher-plant-operations-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Henderson County official: Continental plans to move Fletcher plant operations to Mexico."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1349 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AUTOMOTIVE-ING-2-300x162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AUTOMOTIVE-ING-2-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AUTOMOTIVE-ING-2-520x281.png 520w, https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AUTOMOTIVE-ING-2-360x195.png 360w, https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AUTOMOTIVE-ING-2-250x135.png 250w, https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AUTOMOTIVE-ING-2-100x54.png 100w, https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AUTOMOTIVE-ING-2.png 653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/henderson-county-official-continental-plans-to-move-fletcher-plant-operations-to-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NEWS 13 WLOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Henderson County Manager Steve Wyatt confirms he\u2019s learned that auto parts manufacturer\u00a0Continental\u00a0plans to move its Henderson County plant operations to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I\u2019ve been told it will be a multi-year phasing out of the plant, and relocation of the plant to Mexico,&#8221; Wyatt told us. &#8220;I\u2019ve been told (Continental) plans to meet with employees today, and that the phasing out will be over years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wyatt said Brittany Brady, head of the Henderson County Economic Development Commission, confirmed the news with Continental.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The county manager says there are about 700 people employed there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I\u2019m very concerned about the employees and their future, and their families, and I\u2019m very disappointed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I\u2019ve asked our economic development director to find out if there\u2019s anything we can do to change Continental\u2019s mind.\u201d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wyatt further says that he has been in contact with county economic development staff Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Continental shared this official response with News 13:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, Continental announced that due to adverse market conditions and a decline in production volume, the company is taking steps to optimize its manufacturing footprint worldwide. As a result, Continental has decided to to begin the process of closing its Henderson facility in Fletcher, North Carolina. The Henderson Plant is a hydraulic brake systems location that mainly produces conventional brake calipers and electric parking brakes. It will remain open and operational until the fourth quarter of 2022.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This action will not immediately impact employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS 13 WLOS Henderson County Manager Steve Wyatt confirms he\u2019s learned that auto parts manufacturer\u00a0Continental\u00a0plans to move its Henderson County plant operations to Mexico. &#8220;I\u2019ve been told it will be a multi-year phasing out of the plant, and relocation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accesstomexico.mx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}