FRANKLIN, Ohio — Faurecia Clean Mobility, part of automotive supplier Forvia, will close its plant on Commerce Center Drive in Franklin, laying off 180 employees, according to a WARN notice filed with the state of Ohio.
The layoffs are set to unfold in five phases starting Jan. 8, according to the notice, which was filed Nov. 6 and appears in Ohio’s WARN listings for Franklin in Warren County. WARN — the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act — requires large employers to give advance notice of plant closings and mass layoffs.
The Franklin facility makes clean-mobility components — exhaust and emissions systems — for automakers. Its closure removes one of the larger manufacturing employers from the Franklin area, a Warren County community along the I-75 corridor between Dayton and Cincinnati where auto suppliers cluster…