Warren, Michigan-based Proper Group, a supplier of engineering, tooling, and manufacturing for the plastics industry for the automotive, lighting, and industrial markets, has announced the closure of its Warren, Michigan, tool and manufacturing facility.
The shutdown will impact 130 employees, and the shutdown will be completed by March 31, 2023.
President Robert Hamood cited “financial difficulties that were not reasonably foreseeable” as the reason for the closure.
Hamood said the tooling company’s collapse was the result of last-minute changes to a deal between Florida-based private equity firm New Water Capital and Proper Group, which also has plants in Tennessee, South Carolina and Ontario. The firm initially agreed to buy more of the business than it ultimately ended up taking.
“They, at the end of the agreement, sort of reneged and wanted to purchase only one small part of the offer they had made, so that left us in a position to scramble to sell other pieces of the company and really a situation where we’re left with too much debt on the remaining company,” Hamood said.
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