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Coperion K-Tron to Shutter Kansas FacilityCoperion K-Tron to Shutter Kansas Facility

Almost 100 employees affected by the plant closure.

Norbert Sparrow

January 24, 2025

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Coperion K-Tron, a supplier of auxiliary equipment to the plastics and other industries, will shutter its plant in Salina, KS, the company announced in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed with KansasWorks on Jan. 22, 2025. The closure will affect 98 employees, the company said.

In a Jan. 24 press release on the Coperion website, the company noted that it was in the process of streamlining its North American operations “in an effort to improve operational efficiency.” Operations in the the Salina plant will be relocated in the coming months to facilities in Whitewater, WI; Sabetha, KS; and Kansas City, MO, the company added. “I am confident that streamlining our US operations will enable us to strengthen our support for customers in the Americas and allow us to uphold our commitment to delivering high-quality, innovative solutions,” said Coperion President Ulrich Bartel in a prepared statement.

Coperion K-Tron anticipates closing the facility by the end of this year.

K-Tron was owned by Hillenbrand Inc. in 2013, when the Indiana-based industrial firm acquired Coperion, a maker of extrusion systems based in Stuttgart, Germany. At that time, it adopted the name Coperion K-Tron.

Coperion K-Tron is headquartered in Sewell, NJ. It reportedly holds more than 100 patents for feeding, weighing, mechanical components, and control technologies for applications in bulk solids handling in the plastics, chemical, food, pharmaceutical, detergent, and nonwoven industries.

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Norbert Sparrow

Editor in chief of PlasticsToday since 2015, Norbert Sparrow has more than 30 years of editorial experience in business-to-business media. He studied journalism at the Centre Universitaire d'Etudes du Journalisme in Strasbourg, France, where he earned a master's degree.

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