Deere & Company has informed approximately 120 production employees at John Deere Harvester Works in East Moline, Illinois, that they will be placed on indefinite layoff effective September 6. The factory's workforce currently includes approximately 1050 production employees, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
Deere continues to adjust the size of its production workforce to market demand for products manufactured at each of its factories. In previous announcements, Deere said it expects sales of agricultural equipment to decrease for the 2016 fiscal year.
The John Deere Harvester Works manufactures combines and associated headers.
