LEBANON – (TNS) In a further sign of the bourbon industry’s slow down, Kentucky Cooperage is laying off 110 workers from its Lebanon plant.

Owned by Independent Stave, which makes barrels for distilleries, Kentucky Cooperage notified the Kentucky Department of Workforce Investment of that the job cuts will begin Oct. 19.

“KYC has concluded that it, unfortunately, must significantly reduce its empoyment at its Lebanon manufacturing facility located at 712 E. Main St., Lebanon KY 40033,” the company human resources director Ronda Bilyeu wrote the state. “The entire plant will not be closed, but we expect that the job losses listed with this letter will be permanent.”

Teri Smith, marketing director of Independent Stave, said in a statement to the Herald-Leader: “We have made a strategic

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