Chiefautomotive will close Nebraska State factory

In the early morning of Tuesday Beijing time, chief Automotive Technology said it would close its factory in Nebraska State Grand Island and combine the plant's operations with a factory in Indiana.　　The shutdown will affect the plant's 66 employees in Nebraska State. Steve Frisbie, a spokeswoman for the company, said chief automotive would still operate as an independent company, but would become part of the parent company Dover Industrial Product's new auto service unit, Frisbie.　　The new department also includes Rotary consolidated.　　Frisbie said the production of the Grand Island plant would end on July 17, but sales and service work could continue until the end of the first quarter of 2011. He said the plant's 66 employees would have the opportunity to be redeployed to other positions in the Dover company or to be offered severance payments.　　Other employees-mainly sales and service personnel-are located in the United States and other parts of the world.　　Frisbie said the plant was shut down in part because of the US recession, which forced the company to seek cost savings and other synergies through mergers. Chief automotive Production Collision repair and other vehicle maintenance equipment.　　The company was created in 1972 as a department of Chief industries, and was Dover Industrial acquired in 1988. Dover Industrial is part of Dover Corp. (DOV), headquartered in New York.