Changes in the lighting industry will soon bring an end to the General Electric Lighting Glass Plant in Bridgeville, which has been a fixture there for nearly 100 years.
GE Lighting this month notified employees of its intent to close the plant, which employs 60 people.
In a statement, the company blamed the shift away from incandescent, halogen and specialty linear fluorescent lamps in the past decade.
A 2007 federal law set energy efficiency standards for light bulbs. Common household light bulbs that traditionally used between 40 and 100 watts had to meet the efficiency requirements by 2014.
GE's revenue from traditional incandescent and fluorescent lights has been declining as the government pushed for a phasing-out of the bulbs and consumers opted for more energy-efficient options, such as LED lights.
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