Edgemere Plant Closing, 59 Jobs Lost

An Edgemere steel processing plant will be closing in July, costing nearly five dozen local jobs.

Worthington Industries notified the Maryland Department of Labor Tuesday that it plans to close its Edgemere facility July 13, a Department of Labor spokesman confirmed Wednesday.

Located at 8911 Bethlehem Boulevard, the Columbus, Ohio-based company informed the Department of Labor as required by The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act that it's closing the facility and 59 jobs will be lost.

The Maryland Department of Labor has begun unemployment benefit and job retraining outreach to local Worthington employees.

In late February, Worthington announced an agreement with Marubeni-Itochu Steel America, Inc. to combine Dietrich Metal Framing and ClarkWestern Building Systems in a newly formed joint venture.

According to reporting in The Baltimore Sun, Worthington corporate human resources manager Dan Thomas said the plant’s closure was the result of consolidation from the merger.

“The other joint-venture site, Clark Dietrich, on North Point Boulevard in Edgemere—just a few miles from the Dietrich Metal site—will remain open,” the Sun reported.

Founded in 1955, Worthington Industries operates 79 facilities in 11 countries with annual sales of approximately $1.9 billion, according to its website.