Akebono Engineering Center in Farmington Hills will layoff 48 people.

The layoffs are expected to be permanent.

The company lists declining U.S. business as a reason for the job cuts.

Japanese brake maker, Akebono Brake Corp. is letting go of 48 people employed at its Akebono Engineering Center in Farmington Hills in a move that is expected to be permanent, the company said in Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed this month with the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity.

The notice said that in addition to the 48 employees at the location on 12 Mile Road, five more employees would also be laid off at the Akebono Brake Elizabethtown plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

It is unclear how many total employees work at the Farmington Hills locat

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