Advanced Medical Optics Inc. said Tuesday that it is moving production of recently acquired lasers to correct vision from Irvine to plants in the Bay area and Puerto Rico.
The Santa Ana-based eye device and contact lens solution maker said it would take a pretax charge of $11 million and $13 million to move the operations during the next three quarters, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
The move stems from Advanced Medical’s $808 million buy of Irvine’s IntraLase Corp. earlier this year.
Advanced Medical said the plan includes an unspecified number of job cuts and transfers, outplacement assistance, relocating certain employees and terminating redundant supplier contracts.
IntraLase employed about 225 people in Irvine before the acquisition.
The company plans to move the making of laser equipment to Milpitas and disposables used with them to Puerto Rico.
