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Asama Coldwater Manufacturing Georgia filed a new layoff notice with the state on Friday, Oct. 30, saying the 67 employees still working at its Warrenton iron foundry will be affected as the company winds down the plant and concludes production by Dec. 31, 2026.
The filing, Georgia WARN notice GA202600025, is the third the company has submitted this year for the same worksite at 975 Thomson Highway in Warrenton, the Warren County seat. It lists the action as a permanent closure and reports 67 total employees at the worksite, all 67 of them affected.
What the new notice says
According to the notice posted on the Technical College System of Georgia’s public WARN list, the company “is continuing to reduce our headcount.” It says the plant’s machining department has already been completed and that the company plans “to conclude production in our cast iron foundry by 12/31/2026.” The employer describes the filing as “an extension of previous WARN notices.”
The impacted positions are listed as production associate, maintenance, engineering and administration. The notice lists Dec. 31, 2026 as the first date of separation and indicates more than one separation date. No union represents the affected workers, according to the filing, and the employer checked the box marking the closure as trade-affected. The notice classifies the plant under the industry code for iron foundries.
The second separation date on the form reads March 31, 2026, a date that had already passed when the notice was filed. The company’s first notice, filed in July, listed March 31, 2027 as its final date, so the 2026 entry may be a typographical error; the state record has not been corrected.
How the closure has unfolded
The company first notified the state of a full closure on July 9, 2026, in notice GA202600001, which reported 107 employees at the worksite, all affected. That filing covered all associates in the foundry, machining, paint and administration areas and listed separation dates of Sept. 18, 2026, Dec. 31, 2026 and March 31, 2027. Augusta television station WRDW reported on the planned closure of the plant and its 107 jobs on July 27.
A second notice, GA202600011, filed Aug. 19, reported 102 employees at the worksite. In it the company said part of the machining work had been delayed because of inventory levels and would run until an estimated Oct. 14, 2026, instead of the previously scheduled Sept. 17. “We still plan to cease operations completely in December 2026,” that notice said.
Taken together, the three filings show the reported workforce at the site falling from 107 in July to 102 in August and 67 now, as departments shut down in stages. The notices do not say why the plant is closing, and none of the filings gives a breakdown of how many workers will leave on each date.
Background on the plant
Asama Coldwater Manufacturing, which makes brake components for the automotive industry, bought the Warrenton foundry in March 2013, according to a 2014 economic development announcement. At the time, the company said it would add a roughly 80,000-square-foot machining and painting facility next to the existing 203,000-square-foot foundry and create 40 jobs in robotics, CNC machining and inspection work, with training through Georgia Quick Start. The company also operates in Coldwater, Michigan.
What affected workers should know
A WARN notice is advance notice of planned separations, not a record of completed layoffs, and dates can shift, as the August filing showed. Workers losing jobs in a closure like this one can file for unemployment benefits with the Georgia Department of Labor once they are separated and can seek reemployment and training services through the WorkSource Georgia system. The company had not issued a public statement about the latest filing as of Friday.
Sources
- Technical College System of Georgia, “WARN Notice GA202600025: Asama Coldwater Manufacturing Georgia,” October 30, 2026. https://www.tcsg.edu/warn-public-view/entry/91947/
- Technical College System of Georgia, “WARN Notice GA202600011: Asama Coldwater Manufacturing Georgia,” August 19, 2026. https://www.tcsg.edu/warn-public-view/entry/84198/
- Technical College System of Georgia, “WARN Notice GA202600001: Asama Coldwater Manufacturing Georgia LLC,” July 9, 2026. https://www.tcsg.edu/warn-public-view/entry/83061/
- Technical College System of Georgia, “WFD WARN Notice (Public),” accessed October 30, 2026. https://www.tcsg.edu/warn-public-view/
- WRDW, “Warrenton plant to close, lay off all 107 workers,” July 27, 2026. https://www.wrdw.com/2026/07/27/warrenton-plant-close-lay-off-all-107-workers/
- Area Development, “Asama Coldwater Manufacturing Expands Its Manufacturing Facility In Warrenton, Georgia,” October 1, 2014. https://www.areadevelopment.com/newsitems/10-1-2014/asama-coldwater-manufacturing-machining-facility-warrenton-georgia289342.shtml
Featured photo: The Warren County Courthouse in Warrenton, Georgia, June 18, 2022. Representative image; not the Asama Coldwater Manufacturing foundry on Thomson Highway. Photo: Jud McCranie, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Cropped from the original.
