Richland Parish-based Hydro Extrusion USA recently announced it plans to shutter its aluminum manufacturing facility next year, eliminating 226 jobs. The company notified the Louisiana Workforce Commission of the layoffs in June, with the cuts scheduled to take effect March 31, 2027, according to the state’s latest Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification report.
Operations at the plant, located in the town of Delhi, will conclude April 1, 2027, followed by a wind-down period lasting through Q3 2027, parent company Hydro announced.
The Delhi facility is one of two U.S. extrusion plants the Norway-based aluminum and renewable energy company plans to shut down next year. The other is in City of Industry, California. Roughly 350 employees will be affected in total.
“Both sites face low capacity utilization and require significant capital investment to meet operational standards,” Hydro said in a statement.
The shutdowns are intended to strengthen Hydro’s long-term position in the U.S. by consolidating the company’s footprint and focusing investments where they can have the greatest impact.
Production currently handled by the two plants will be transferred to other facilities in Hydro’s North American network. The company has already begun retooling those facilities and expects the transfer to be completed by the end of Q1 2027.
Hydro said it has begun discussing transition packages and other support for affected workers. Employees are being encouraged to apply for open positions elsewhere in the company’s North American network.
The Delhi plant, established in 1983, provides aluminum extrusion, machining, fabrication and finishing services to customers in Louisiana and across the South.
The closure comes as Richland Parish experiences an unprecedented wave of investment tied to Meta’s massive data center development. The tech giant on Monday announced a $40 billion expansion of that project. Gov. Jeff Landry says it is now “the largest data center development in the history of the world.”
