Covidien has been clearing the deck in an effort to weather the economic tsunami that’s battered manufacturers particularly hard, according to news reports.
The Mansfield-based medical devices, imaging solutions, pharmaceutical products and medical supplies maker cut 40 full-time positions last January at its Watertown, N.Y., plant and moved production of four of the facility’s product lines to Shanghai.
Nearly 250 more jobs will be lost when the remaining production lines are shut down completely.
According to Covidien spokesman Richard Bevilacqua, in June the company will either discontinue or transfer to other locations the rest of its vascular feeding tubes, thermometers and chest drainage device production lines. The facility will be shuttered between June and December 2010.