NEWPORT – Trauth Dairy’s Newport plant will cease production by the end of August, ending more than 90 years of making dairy products in Newport.
The plant will remain a distribution and administration center for the dairy company, Trauth’s owner, Dallas-based Dean Foods announced Thursday.
The company said 80 people will lose their jobs at the plant by the time production ceases on Aug. 26. The plant will retain 190 people at the site for the cooler, freezer, sales, administration and distribution, said Liliana Esposito, spokeswoman for Dean Foods.
Mayor Jerry Peluso said he learned about the layoffs when one of his friends working at Trauth called him Thursday afternoon.
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