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The sweet smell of baked goods that has wafted over Fair Lawn since the Nabisco plant opened in 1958 will fade away this summer when the plant is shut down.
Mondelēz International on Thursday told the 600 employees at the facility along Route 208 that a final decision was made to shut it down. They also will close an 80-year-old plant in Atlanta in order to consolidate its east coast operations to a single facility in Richmond, Virginia. Plants in Illinois and Oregon will remain open.
Employees and their union were first notified in November that closing the plant was under consideration. The closure will happen in a phased approach with production ramped down and a complete shutdown sometime over the summer, spokeswoman Laurie M. Guzzinati told New Jersey 101.5.