Gillette Machine may move from Chili to Henrietta
Gillette Machine & Tool Co., a Chili manufacturer, is hoping to get approval from its owner to relocate next year to a Henrietta site.
Thomas M. Turner, president of both Gillette and Nationwide Precision Products Corp., said the relocation plan comes as the Chili company expects a sizable drop in business in 2010. New Jersey-based Precision Partners Holding Co. owns both Monroe County firms. Its decision could come next month on a business plan being put together now to consolidate Gillette equipment and employees into the Nationwide Precision site, Turner said.
If Precision Partners approves the move, the relocation could come by the end of the first quarter of 2010, he said.
Gillette’s woes come in the form of the overall economic slowdown and losing large amounts of work from two of its largest customers — Rochester medical imaging company Carestream Health and Alstom Transportation in Steuben County, Turner said.
Gillette today employs about 70, down from 117 at the start of the year, Turner said. Nationwide employs slightly less than 150, he said.
Along with the relocation, Gillette also is looking at the possibility of subleasing its Millstead Way building once it moves out, Turner said.
