Electronics manufacturing portion to cease by June, some support services to remain
By JOHN McCALLUM
Editor
City of Cheney officials were informed in a letter received March 2 that electronics manufacturer Harman will be closing its manufacturing operations at its Cheney plant located at 2416 Cheney-Spokane Road. The plant, originally founded as XN Technologies by former Eastern Washington University computer science professor the late-Alan Hale and sold to AMX/Harman in 2006, will be laying off 86 employees in phases beginning May 4.
Manufacturing operations will effectively cease on June 30. Cheney officials were made aware of the corporation’s decision last summer.
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