Kurz-Kasch, formerly Wabash Magnetics, will expand operations in South Boston following a restructuring of the Ohio-based electrical coil maker announced last week.

Plant Manager Dennis Stewart said he was advised early last week that the company is closing its Ohio plant and sending the work to two of its other plants, including the one in South Boston.

Currently the local plant has 20 employees.

“It’s the dedicated hard workers here who have created this opportunity,” Stewart said, noting that the employees have stayed true to their customers by getting the work back to them in a reasonable amount of time.

Despite the sharp cutbacks that the company has faced over the past several years, Stewart said his limited workforce has worked diligently, making electrical coils which they ship directly to their customers. One of the employees has been with the company for 43 years, he said. (Kurz Kasch bought Wabash Magnetics back in 2003.)

Announcement of the closing of the Miamisburg plant, located outside Dayton, Ohio came last Thursday, saying it would lose its doors in mid November. The company had earlier laid off some 56 employees in May of this year after losing two of its largest customers. According to the announcement, the plant’s work will be shifted to other company plants located in Newcomerstown, Ohio and in Virginia.

The company was started in 1916 and is a leading manufacturer of conventional and encapsulated coils, serving the aerospace market, appliance businesses and automotive companies.

from The News & Record