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Cummins Engine announces closing of plant in Scotland as a result of its previously announced restructuring program; some employees to be offered positions at other Cummins facilities.


COLUMBUS, Ind IND Investigational new drug Therapeutics A status assigned by the FDA to a drug before allowing its use in humans, exempting it from premarketing approval requirements so that experimental clinical trials may be conducted. See Phase 1.2, 3 studies, Sponsorship. .--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 1996--Cummins Engine Co. Inc. today announced the closure of its engine plant at Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland, as the next step in the restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics).  program announced Oct. 30, 1995.

A phased employment reduction program will be carried out through 1996. There are approximately 700 employees at Shotts, some of whom will be offered positions at other Cummins operations, the company said.

"The plant operations at Shotts and Darlington, England, are being consolidated as part of a worldwide review of floor space, assets and staffing in order to improve the company's financial performance and help ensure Cummins' future in the European European

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, Middle Eastern and African markets," said Kenneth G. Sanford, vice president and managing director of Cummins' operations in those areas.

Supply of heavy-duty engines for these markets will be consolidated with midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually  engine production at Cummins' plant in Darlington. Rail and defense power pack assembly work will be carried out at the Cummins facility in Cumbernauld, Glasgow, Scotland.

Employees not transferred to other Cummins locations will be provided counseling and other job search assistance.

Cummins Engine Co. Ltd., the European arm of U.S.-based Cummins Engine Co. Inc., has a total U.K. work force of almost 5,000 employees involved in the manufacture, distribution and service of engines, components and power generation equipment.

Cummins Engine Co. Inc., headquartered in Columbus, Ind., U.S.A., is a leading worldwide designer and manufacturer of diesel engines and related products. These engines provide power for its key markets: automotive, power generation, industrial and core technologies. Cummins reported sales of $5.2 billion in 1995.

CONTACT: Cummins Engine Co. Inc., Columbus

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