TMK IPSCO in Brookfield not closing but plans layoffs

BROOKFIELD

TMK IPSCO is not closing.

But there will be layoffs at the plant located at 6880 Parkway Drive.

The 106 employees at the plant who make specialty connections on pipe used in the oil and gas industry all recently received the federal-mandated Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, WARN, to alert them that there will be layoffs.

WARN is a “federal law that says if you are going to lay off more than one-third of the employees you have to give them a 60-day notice to do that,” said Roger Bentley, director of communications for TMK IPSCO, one of the largest North American producers of welded and seamless pipe and premium connections.

The downturn in the oil and gas industry led to the layoffs,

Last year, about 20 employees were laid off at the local plant.

Bentley was not sure of the number of layoffs expected to happen this year, but no one has been laid off yet.