Boyle-Halfway Closing Metropolis of Commerce Plant

Boyle-Halfway, maker of family cleansing merchandise like Woolite cold-water washing liquid and Straightforward-Off oven cleaner, will shut its manufacturing plant in Metropolis of Commerce Sept. 30, it was realized Thursday.

The choice to shut the plant was quietly disclosed to about 230 staff earlier this week. Plant supervisor Walter Bowker confirmed Thursday that the ability can be closed on the finish of September however wouldn’t remark additional, referring all inquiries to Boyle-Halfway’s company headquarters in New York.

No additional particulars, together with the explanations for the closure, have been accessible. Executives in New York refused to remark, and the corporate’s spokeswoman didn’t return phone calls.

Boyle-Halfway, a division of American House Merchandise, is the second main nationwide producer of family merchandise in a month to reveal plans to shut a Southern California plant.

Procter & Gamble has advised its 420 staff in Lengthy Seaside that it’s going to shut its plant there late subsequent yr. The ability has manufactured Ivory cleaning soap, Tide detergent and different merchandise since 1931.

Boyle-Halfway additionally produces Wizard charcoal-lighting fluid, Wizard room deodorizer, Black Flag pesticides and Outdated English furnishings polish on the Metropolis of Commerce plant, based on a enterprise license on file at Metropolis of Commerce Metropolis Corridor. Boyle-Halfway constructed the 185,000-square-foot plant in 1959. It’s believed to be Boyle-Halfway’s solely manufacturing facility in California.

The corporate has been working underneath its current identify within the Los Angeles space since 1940. One in all its forerunners, Halfway Chemical, had been manufacturing right here since 1928.