ELIZABETHTOWN,Ky (WDRB)– A Japanese vehicle distributor strategies to close its Elizabethtown plant at the end of 2025, according to a document created in Japanese and submitted with the stock exchange regulatory authority in Japan.
Akebono Brake Industry Co uses 629 individuals making brakes at the plant at 300 Ring Road in Elizabethtown, according to the declaring.
The plant opened up in 1987, according to a Kentucky business directory site.
The news submitted in Japan claims the company is relocating to a “one factory system” in the United States after shutting plants in Clarksville, Tennessee, and in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2020.
Akebono likewise has a plant in Glasgow, Kentucky, that used 795 since 2018.
The Elizabethtown plant makes “disc brakes, drum brakes (and) …