More than 1,200 employees at an Upstate refrigerator manufacturing plant will be out of work starting in July — at least temporarily.
Sweden-based Electrolux will lay off 1,255 workers at the company’s Anderson plant by year’s end, according to a notice filed this month with the state Department of Employment and Workforce.
The notice follows a joint venture announcement in April between Electrolux and China-based appliance maker Midea Group. As part of the deal, the companies will retool the Anderson plant to make washers and dryers…