Alloy Surfaces Company Inc. in Chester will be able to stay open, but will have to lay off 63 workers in October, writes Lisa Dukart for Philadelphia Business Journal.

The affected workers are not part of a labor organization.  The layoffs will take place on or about Oct. 8.

The workforce reduction will likely be permanent, the company stated in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filing with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.

Alloy Surfaces, at 121 N. Commerce Drive, is a subsidiary of Chemring Group PLC out of the United Kingdom.  It is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of advanced air and naval countermeasures, according to nacconsortium.org.

It has 30 years experience designing and development infrared emitting pyrophoric materials for military applications.

That includes infrared Air Countermeasures and Infrared Marker Devices, the website states.

Alloy Surfaces is a major supplier to the US Department of Defense and militaries world-wide.

Its parent company, Chemring is a technology design, manufacturing and supply company.

Chemring has about 2,300 employees worldwide. It had revenues of about $559 million in 2020. That’s up  20 percent from $465 million in 2019.

Read more at Philadelphia Business Journal about the Alloy Surfaces Company layoffs.

Here’s a promotional video about Chemring Global, parent company of Alloy Surfaces.