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What Ametek layoffs have meant for employees

If the name on your paycheck is Gatan, IntelliPower or another business Ametek owns, a layoff notice for your site could be filed under that name and not Ametek's. Gatan's Pleasanton notices, IntelliPower's 2026 notice and FMH Aerospace's 2020 notice in Irvine went in under those names, and Ametek's 2025 subsidiary list includes all three companies. The St. Charles notice carried both names, Ametek Bison Gear & Engineering, and our tracker lists the Bloomingdale notice under Ametek and LaVezzi Precision, another company on that list. Counting those units' own filings, 13 Ametek notices are in the tracker. To check whether your site has had one, a search under the unit's name as well as Ametek's may find it.

At St. Charles, where Bison designed and made custom motion control products, the closing announcement came about two years after Ametek bought Bison Gear, the Kane County Chronicle reported. By then Ametek had combined Bison with its own Dynamic Fluid Solutions business into one unit based in Kent, Ohio, which Power Transmission Engineering said in August 2023 made its products in Whitsett, North Carolina, Reynosa, Mexico and Shanghai as well as St. Charles. IntelliPower's permanent-closure notice for Orange, listed in California's WARN report, came more than six years after the January 2020 purchase recorded in Ametek's 10-K for 2020. Neither the Chronicle's story nor the state's report says where the work went.

Gatan's notices have been temporary ones. All four since Ametek bought the company in October 2019 are listed that way in California's reports, a closure in March 2020, layoffs that July and October, and another closure in July 2025 at its Pleasanton address. St. Charles and Orange went the other way, with permanent closings on their notices. If you're at Gatan and another notice comes, California's report gives the type it records, temporary or permanent, in the same row as the effective date.

Ametek's 2015 and 2016 cuts each started as a charge booked in one quarter and then played out over a year or more. Ametek's 2016 restructuring note says the actions behind the first-quarter 2015 charge were all completed in the second half of 2016, and that the late-2016 round would be broadly implemented across its businesses through the end of 2017, with most actions expected to be completed in 2018. The note gave the same reasons each time, a weak global economy and a strong U.S. dollar. If you were let go by an Ametek business in 2017, your job may have been part of a charge recorded in late 2016. The 2016 and 2020 charges also carried asset write-downs, $6.2 million and $8.4 million, which the filings list apart from the severance costs. In 2020, by chief executive David Zapico's account, the reduction in force covered direct, indirect and selling, general and administrative jobs, and Ametek paired it with temporary measures, among them furloughs, temporary facility shutdowns, short work weeks and pay cuts. He said the first-quarter charge was expected to yield about $85 million in annualized structural savings, according to the May 2020 call transcript.

At Bloomingdale, the first layoff date in Illinois's September 2026 WARN report, in December, applies to the first group only, and the rest run to the end of March 2027. If your job ends at an Illinois site such as Bloomingdale, Illinois's unemployment rules are set out at Illinois unemployment benefits, and California's, for the Pleasanton and Orange sites, are at California unemployment benefits.