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3M Shutters Irvine Plant

3M Co. has moved a unit that makes tape used in casting broken bones from Irvine to Poland.

St. Paul, Minn.-based 3M halted production of the tape at its Orange County plant earlier this month.

About 65 workers were affected by the consolidation of the Scotchcast synthetic casting tape unit to Wroclaw, Poland. Some workers were offered other jobs at 3M, said spokeswoman Donna Fleming.

The casting tape is used to create stronger casts.

The unit’s departure leaves empty 3M’s 72,740-square-foot plant at 17132 Pullman St. The factory faces the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway.

3M put the plant up for sale for $8 million.

The move of the Irvine unit is part of a wider bid to consolidate the Poland plant. 3M is said to have invested about $30 million in Poland, according to Pharma Poland News, a trade publication.

The company also moved work at plants in Pithiviers, France, and Yamagata, Japan, to the Poland plant. Production at the facility began a year ago.

Despite the demise of the Irvine plant, 3M continues to have a sizable presence in OC.


For more on this story, see the June 12 edition of the Business Journal.

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