RR Donnelly to close its printing plant in Danbury, potentially laying off 153 workers

According to Printweek Magazine, RR Donnelly has already contacted the Connecticut Department of Labor about the closures, which come on the heels of RR Donnelley shutting a plant in nearby Windsor, CT in March, resulting in 117 layoffs.

Printweek wrote that the The Danbury facility was originally founded nearly 70 years ago and became Danbury Print & Litho in 1964. It was acquired by the Banta Corp. in the mid-1990s and RR Donnelley took over ownership when it acquired Banta in 2007.

The 160,000sqft plant primarily focuses on direct mail – both self-mailers and postcards – as well as catalogs, booklets, FSIs and bagtail and trans-promo inserts. It features HP inkjet proofing; Epson and Fuji contract color proofing, and up to six-color full and half-web printing.