Buffalo Grove Company Plans To Close, Layoff 81 Employees

Several suburban companies, including a company in Buffalo Grove, will be laying off employees in the coming months. The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity in its monthly WARN reports listed 14 companies in Illinois planning to close and/or provide its workers with pink slips.

Under state law, employers must notify the state when they plan to lay off workers. This law is known as the WARN Act or Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

Here is a look at some of the companies planning to layoff employees or close:

• CORPAK Medsystems, Inc., at 1001 Asbury Drive in Buffalo Grove, will be closing. The surgical and medical instrument manufacturing company will layoff 81 employees starting in September with the final layoff date slated for December.
• Amcor Rigid Plastics LLC, at 1300 South River Street in Batavia, is planning to close and layoff 110 employees. The first layoff date for the plastic bottle manufacturing company will occur in September and the ending layoff date will be in March, according to the WARN report.
• Sears, at 1601 North Harlem Avenue in Chicago, will be laying off 116 employees in September and closing.
• Aramark, at 1600 W. Glen Flora Avenue in Waukegan, reported closing and laying off 117 employees on July 31.
• Flood damage will force Westmoreland Nursing Center, 600 N. Westmoreland Road in Lake Forest, planned to close and layoff 84 employees this past week.
• Pacific Coast Feather Company, at 414 East Golf Coast Road in Des Plaines, plans to close. In total, 29 employees will be laid off in September, according to the company.

For a full list of companies planning to close and/or layoff employees, visit the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.