Seventy employees at Gibbs Die Casting Corp. in Henderson, Ky., have been asked by the company to extend their holiday vacation one week because of a lack of work.
Sheri Pfingston, a Gibbs human resource generalist, said the 70 work in the die casting plant.
Their work is driven by the automotive industry, some of whose plants currently are closed, she said.
Meanwhile, 700 other Gibbs employees are scheduled to return to work Monday, according to Pfingston.
Gibbs Die Casting is one of the world’s leading global suppliers of high quality aluminum and magnesium die cast components to the automotive industry.
With manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Brazil, Hungary, South Korea and China, Gibbs Die Casting provides components to manufacturing facilities around the world.
