The Precision Cutting Specialties plant on La. 13 in Eunice reportedly cut about a dozen jobs as it restructured its work.
On Tuesday, the company stated in a news release, “Effective today, PCS, a Crest Industries company, will begin repurposing the Eunice facility to support their steel fabrication capacity at PCS’ sister company, DIS-TRAN Steel.”
The news release did not mention any layoffs and company officials did not make return calls placed it to them by The Eunice News Wednesday morning.
But KATC reported Tuesday night that more than two dozen people were laid off at facility.
It is unknown how many people are employed at the facility.
“The transition will focus on relocating a significant amount of DIS-TRAN Steel plate processing from its Tioga facility to the PCS facility,” the news release stated.
“This will include substantial asset transfer as well as millions of dollars of additional capital investment and will open future employment opportunities.
“Along with this transition, the PCS machining services will be discontinued. PCS will work with its customers during this change in fulfilling existing orders.
“The press release states Crest has made a significant investment in this operation and plans to maintain a presence in the Eunice community.
“Crest Industries is the holding company for a family of world-class project-oriented companies serving the energy, electric, petrochemical, industrial, and forestry industries,” the news release concluded.
The KATC report stated that John Doggett, Crest Industries chief administrative officer, said a number of PCS employees were offered jobs elsewhere in the company.
The employees who were let go were offered a severance package with a month’s pay, the report stated.
