The parent company of Tustin-based Cherokee International Corp., a maker of power supply gear for electronics, has filed plans with the state to cut more than 200 local manufacturing jobs.
Last year Cherokee was bought by Lineage Power Holdings Inc., part of Los Angeles-based private equity firm Gores Group LLC, for $105 million.
Lineage is set to cut 223 jobs here a 80,00-square-foot site in Tustin, according to a spokesperson for the company.
The factory is expected to close by the end of March and the work will be shifted to a site in Shanghai, China.
Electronics production is moving to a plant in China with roughly 80 administrative jobs staying in Tustin.
Lineage, based near Dallas, is the former power systems unit of Tyco Electronics Ltd. Lineage was bought in 2007 by Gores Group.
Cherokee, which makes power supplies for medical devices, networking equipment and computers, became a Lineage division after the sale closed in November.
Before it was bought, Cherokee saw sales decline after it lost two large telecommunications customers in Europe and a medical device maker in Mexico.
