Packaging company to lay off 82 people, stop manufacturing in Mass.

A Massachusetts-based company that creates specialized packaging for life science uses plans to move all of its manufacturing operations out of the state this fall and lay off the employees currently doing that work.

Franklin-based Cold Chain Technologies will lay off 82 people between Oct. 1 and the end of the year, according to a Massachusetts Workers Adjustment Retraining Notice filed with the state on Aug. 8. Manufacturing will be moved from the company’s headquarters at 135 Constitution Blvd. in Franklin to its other U.S. sites in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas, according to a letter from the company to the state Department of Career Services.

Cold Chain Technologies did not respond to a request for comment.

Other employees will remain at the Franklin site for “certain operations,” according to the letter, but it was not clear what operations or what employees would remain.

Cold Chain Technologies manufactures thermal packaging for the shipment of temperature-sensitive materials, and also provides digital monitoring services for these shipments, according to its website. Though the company’s products are primarily intended for the life sciences industry, it also works with airlines and freight shipping customers.

Though the company’s global headquarters are in Franklin, it also has U.S. locations in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Texas, Tennessee and California, and international facilities in the Netherlands, Singapore, Panama, Uruguay and Brazil.

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