Stanley Black & Decker to slash 300 jobs, close factory in its Connecticut hometown

Stanley Black & Decker is slashing around 300 jobs and shuttering a Connecticut factory — wiping out roughly half of its workforce in its longtime hometown.State Rep.Dave DeFronzo said the toolmaker is cutting about half of its 600-person workforce in New Britain and closing a tape-measure manufacturing facility which produces single-sided tape measures.The company confirmed the move.“As a result of a structural decline in demand for single-sided tape measures, we have decided to close our facility in New Britain that predominantly makes these products,” Debora Raymond, vice president of external communications for Stanley Black & Decker, told The Post on Monday.“These products are quickly becoming obsolete in the markets we serve.”Raymond added that the company was now “focused on supporting impacted employees through this transition, including providing options for employment at other facilities, severance, and job placement support services for both salaried and hourly employees.”Stanley Black & Decker reported 600 employees in New Britain in 2024.

The closure would eliminate about half of those jobs.The company will keep its headquarters in the city open.It is unclear when the company plans to shutter the facility.“It’s a sad day for New Britain,” DeFronzo told WFSB-TV.“Stanley has a long history here, and slowly but surely its presence has been eroded.

I think if you talk to most people in the city, they have family or a grandparent that worked at Stanley.They provided good jobs for a lot of people at quality wages.”Stanley Black & Decker has been based in New Britain since 1843, when Frederick T.

Stanley opened a small bolt and door hardware shop that would grow into one of America’s best-known toolmakers.Over more than 180 years, the company helped earn New Britain the nickname “Hardware City,” expanding from traditional hand tools into a global manufacturing powerhouse while keeping its world headquarters root...