Pharmaceutical company WuXi AppTec’s former Mendota Heights location is expected to close and 124 of its employees to be laid off following the company’s acquisition by North American Science Associates, according to a Monday notice to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.
North American Science Associates, or NAMSA, will move services at 2540 Executive Drive in Mendota Heights to the company’s existing facility at 8945 Evergreen Blvd. NW in Minneapolis over the next several months, wrote Human Resources Director Amy Kincaid to DEED Commissioner Matt Varilek. NAMSA is a medical device contract research company.
As part of that transition, the Mendota Heights site will undergo a phased workforce reduction over the next several months with 39 employees to be laid off starting Monday.
Phases of the layoff will continue through October with the eventual closure of the site. An estimated 17 employees from the site’s approximately 141 current employees will be transferred to the Minneapolis location.
Affected employees are not represented by a union and there are no applicable bumping rights, according to the letter.
NAMSA has decided to provide pay in place of the 60-day notice required under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act and state statute, according to the letter.
NAMSA, which is headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, and has locations in Europe and Asia, acquired WuXi AppTec’s U.S. medical device testing operations in late February, according to its website.
It also acquired one other Mendota Heights WuXi AppTec location at 2520 Pilot Knob Road.
WuXi AppTec is headquartered in Shanghai, China.
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