AFL Shutting Down Voorhees Printing Plant

Four months after declaring the company was growing and adding new equipment to its printing locations, AFL Web Printing is shutting down its Voorhees printing plant and wiping out 100 jobs, according to a report from the South Jersey Times.

The printer, which is owned by the private equity firm Westbury Partners, abruptly told workers it would close operations in Voorhees as of this week, despite heralding equipment upgrades over the summer company officials said would help meet the demand from the publications printed out of their Secaucus and Voorhees plants.

The shutdown comes almost immediately after the company announced layoffs at both plants because of the loss of $10 million in contracts, according to a Bergen Record report.

Union members told the Record the company had lost contracts to print Metro, a free paper targeted at New York and Philadelphia.