R.R. Donnelley to close Nashville plant, idle 133 workers


R.R. Donnelley to close Nashville plant, idle 133 workers

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (From the Tennessean) -- Chicago-based global commercial printing company R.R. Donnelley plans to shutter its Nashville plant on Antioch Pike by early May.

The closure will affect 133 employees, the company said in its notice to the Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development.

R.R. Donnelley took over the plant at 1530 Antioch Pike through its acquisition of Toronto-based Moore Wallace Inc. in early 2004. That deal came a few months after Moore Wallace bought Nashville-based Check Printers Inc., a provider of checks and printed statements for the mortgage and financial service industries, which operated from the 11-acre property.

Phyllis Burgee, R.R. Donnelley's spokeswoman, couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday 10 Feb 2015. Separately, the company recently relocated its local administrative offices to 13,792 square feet at the Plaza I MetroCenter office building at 220 Athens Way from a mile away at the Riverview Office Building at 545 Mainstream Drive.

Last week, R.R. Donnelley announced an agreement to buy Courier Corp., a North Chelmsford, Mass.-based digital printing, publishing and content management company. And last summer, R.R. Donnelley also shuttered its plant in Argentina amid a recession in that country.