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Northern Engraving Layoffs Begin Posted 11 August 2008 Last Friday, Aug. 8, 67 workers in Allamakee County were in the first wave of employees to be laid off from Northern Engraving in Waukon.   The second largest employer in Waukon, Northern Engraving, will now begin plans to systematically close its doors in the Allamakee County town, until all 207 workers are without jobs. The company expects to close the doors on the local plant for good in November of this year.   Northern Engraving is based in Wisconsin and makes decorative products for cars and electronics.   Some employees point to the nation's bad economy and outsourcing as why the company was forced to downsize. They say the factory has endured other times of economic downturn, with temporary layoffs, but then workers were called back to work. Many continue to be shocked by the closure. Some of the workers at the Waukon plant have been at the factory since it first opened in 1969. That puts them at 39 years of service and just short of retirement.

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