Uncertain Future for New Era's Local Plant ; Either Site in Derby or Alabama Will Close

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New Era Cap Co. is cutting back its U.S. manufacturing and will soon choose which one of two manufacturing plants to keep open -- in Derby or Demopolis, Ala.

The Buffalo-based hat and apparel manufacturer says it needs only one plant, not the three it currently operates, to meet reduced consumer demand. New Era has already determined it will close a plant in Jackson, Ala., in the first quarter of next year.

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Uncertain Future for New Era's Local Plant ; Either Site in Derby or Alabama Will Close

The company will also shut a distribution center in Mobile, Ala., probably in the second quarter of 2010. New Era's Delaware Avenue headquarters and a distribution center in Harrisburg, Pa., are unaffected.

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