About 70 people will lose their jobs in the months ahead at a manufacturing plant in Buchanan.

MTI Groendyk, a subsidiary of Canada-based MTI Global, described to employees Monday its plans to close the factory. The gradual closing probably will begin in about 60 days and may not end until late this year.

The company announced several months ago that it would consolidate manufacturing operations that were then under way at three plants. Buchanan was the plant that lost out.

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