MUSKEGON, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – More than 200 employees will be laid off from a Muskegon manufacturing plant next month.

Pace Industries , a die-casting company, will be laying off 244 employees due to “financial trouble,” according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with the state in early November.

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In addition, Pace will close two facilities in Muskegon.

The layoffs are expected to start on Dec. 20 and will be finished by Dec. 31.