{"id":17018,"date":"2025-06-26T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17018\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:56:11","slug":"prineville-wood-products-plant-to-close-eliminating-184-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17018\/","title":{"rendered":"Prineville wood products plant to close, eliminating 184 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prineville wood products plant to close, eliminating 184 jobs<\/p>\n

Published 11:28 am Thursday, June 26, 2025<\/p>\n

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The Owens Corning wood products plant in Prineville is closing, eliminating 184 jobs. (Jason Chaney\/Central Oregonian)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Owens Corning, a Prineville building products manufacturer, will lay off all 184 employees beginning Aug. 25, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification on file.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The city of Prineville will be working with the company and the laid off workers to help them find work, said Steve Forrester, Prineville city manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company filed a notice, which is required by U.S. labor law, that announced the plant closing. Some employees will remain on through September to assist in the winding down of the facility, according to the notice. The plant will ultimately shutter in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is sad,\u201d said Forrester. \u201cIt\u2019s important to keep in mind that this was a secondary manufacturing facility, which means it consumed materials made from the saw mills. We haven\u2019t had saw mills here for a long time. The company had to bring in wood products from outside to make their engineered components.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since the closing of the Ochoco Lumber Co. in 2001, the city has been working to land businesses that create jobs paying a family wage, Forrester said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Prineville manufacturing site is part of a global business for more than 25,000 in 31 countries. It was founded in 1938 in Toledo, Ohio and in 2024 it posted $2.5 billion in sales, according to public financial disclosures. The company said it made \u201ca strategic business decision to close our doors components facility,\u201d said Megan James, Owens Corning director of external and enterprise communication.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision was not taken lightly, and leadership\u2019s priority is supporting the team in Prineville through this transition,\u201d James said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Manufacturing employs 690 people in May, down by 10 jobs from May 2024, according to employment data from the Oregon Employment Department. The wood products manufacturing sector employed 340 people in Crook County,according to state employment data.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThese workers affected by the layoffs are highly skilled,\u201d Forrester said. \u201cI think we have a lot of economic momentum \u2014 Prineville has the third highest median income in the state \u2014 to support our workers. We\u2019ve done a tremendous amount of work to put ourselves in that position. Data centers have brought us back to that along with the businesses that support the data center industries. It\u2019s similar to the support businesses that were created by the saw mills.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reporter: 541-633-2117, suanne.roig@bendbulletin.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\tAbout Suzanne Roig<\/p>\n

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Suzanne Roig has been a reporter with The Bulletin since 2018 covering business and health in the region. When she’s not working she enjoys taking her dog, Pono, out on hikes. She can be reached at 541-633-2117, suzanne.roig@bendbulletin.com.<\/p>\n

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