DePuy Orthopaedics plans to shutter its manufacturing operations at a facility in Leeds, England, after sales declines for some of its older hip replacement products.
The Warsaw, Indiana-based orthpedics giant, which is a division of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and has operations in Raynham, Mass., said it will phase out manufacturing at the plant, laying off 280 workers, over the course of the rest of this year and 2010.
The company is discontinuing an older line of hip replacement and resurfacing products made in Leeds and relocating the production of other products to a plant in Cork, Ireland.