80 to lose jobs at Indiana maker of truck trailers

NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. (WISH) — A manufacturer of truck trailers will close its production facility near North Manchester, according to a notice filed with the state government.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice received Friday says 80 jobs will be cut beginning in November at the Novae facility about 5 miles east of the Wabash County town of North Manchester on State Road 114.

The facility is about a 40-minute drive west of Fort Wayne.

Novae has a newer Indiana manufacturing facility in the town of Markle. The Huntington County facility sits off I-69 near the U.S. 224 and State Road 116 interchange that’s about a half-hour drive southwest of downtown Fort Wayne.