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What Barrette Outdoor Living layoffs have meant for employees

Barrette's cuts since 2025 haven't been alike. Buffalo's notice took in everyone at the plant, Salisbury's was a permanent downsizing, and South Jersey's first was tied to a single operation. The reasons shifted with the site, too. Buffalo's closing was economic in the words of New York's notice, while the New Jersey cuts came, as WFPG reported, from a decision to phase out its paint line. In North Carolina an Oldcastle APG human resources manager put the reduction down to "revenue decline and economic downturn," and the Charlotte Business Journal listed assemblers, packers and machine and forklift operators among those affected. That matters if you're measuring your own situation against another Barrette plant's, since a closing, a downsizing and a cut tied to one operation aren't the same kind of event.

The paperwork and the press haven't always used the same name. Barrette has belonged to CRH since July 2022, when CRH's announcement said its purchase was complete, and it sits inside CRH's Oldcastle APG business. WIVB called the Buffalo site the Oldcastle APG plant, Atlanta-based Oldcastle sent North Carolina the Salisbury notice, and in January 2025, as Building Products Digest reported, Oldcastle launched Catalyst Fence Solutions to replace the Barrette brand among others. The state filings still carry the Barrette Outdoor Living name, sometimes with "Inc." on the end and sometimes not. If you're tracing one of these filings through our WARN tracker or a state's own list, Barrette Outdoor Living is the name it's filed under, and the tracker's 2016 Georgia layoff sits under Barrette Outdoor Living LLC.

Oldcastle APG bought the Buffalo plant in Lakeside Commerce Park with the rest of CertainTeed's fence, railing and decking assets, and its August 2023 announcement said those assets would augment its Barrette Outdoor Living operations. By the February 2025 closing notice, Barrette Outdoor Living, Inc. was the company on the paperwork. The notice put the plant's whole staff on it, said no union represented them, and named the Buffalo and Erie County Workforce Investment Board as the local workforce board, along with a state rapid response coordinator for the closing. In a statement WIVB carried, Oldcastle said the employees affected were its priority and that it would "continue to work together through the next steps of this process." If you were among those workers, that board is the office New York's own paperwork tied to the layoffs, and New York's weekly benefit amounts and how to file are on New York unemployment benefits.

Egg Harbor City's plant is the former Lenox China plant on Tilton Road in Galloway Township, which Barrette took over in 2014. When the company announced the paint line cuts in 2025, it said assembly and distribution would continue and wouldn't be affected by these cuts, a statement about that round alone. The September 2026 notice for the same operation adds layoffs in December, and neither New Jersey's 2026 list nor WFPG's September 2026 story says which jobs those layoffs cover. If you work at the plant and are weighing an offer elsewhere, the December dates are the plan Barrette filed, which gives you something to set a start date against. The rules New Jersey applies to layoffs like these are set out under New Jersey layoffs, and the state's benefit amounts under New Jersey unemployment benefits.

Salisbury's notice is number 202600042 on North Carolina's 2026 list, where it's entered as a permanent layoff, not a closure, in line with the Charlotte Business Journal's description of a downsizing. If you were on it, the notice number finds the state's own entry, and North Carolina's weekly benefit amounts are on North Carolina unemployment benefits.

A sourced history of Barrette Outdoor Living layoffs

• September 2026, Egg Harbor City notice for December layoffs

  Barrette told New Jersey's Department of Labor, according to WFPG, that it intended to lay off 59 workers at the Tilton Road plant in Galloway Township on December 13 and 14. New Jersey's 2026 list dates the posting to September.

• July 2026, Salisbury, North Carolina plant downsizing

  Oldcastle APG told North Carolina on July 1 that Barrette would permanently downsize its Salisbury plant, citing "revenue decline and economic downturn," the Charlotte Business Journal reported, putting that day's layoffs at 63. North Carolina's 2026 list shows 93 affected, effective October 12.

• March 2025, Egg Harbor City paint line phase-out

  Barrette announced 120 layoffs for July 1, according to WFPG, saying a decision to phase out paint line operations was behind them and that assembly and distribution would continue. The notice went on New Jersey's 2025 list in March.

• February 2025, Buffalo, New York plant closing notice

  Barrette told New York on February 3 that it would close its 231 Ship Canal Parkway plant between May 5 and December 31, 2025, for economic reasons and with every employee there affected, the state's notice shows.

What to do if you're laid off from Barrette Outdoor Living

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Barrette Outdoor Living's biggest hubs: New Jersey, North Carolina, New York. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Barrette Outdoor Living's hub states run: New Jersey, North Carolina, New York, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.