KLX Inc., a Florida-based aerospace parts and logistics provider, will close its Stratford office due to changing needs from its main customer, according to Michael Perlman, the company”™s assistant treasurer.
The company will lay off 32 employees at its Long Beach Boulevard location this fall, according to a notice filed with the Connecticut Department of Labor. Perlman said the facility is expected to close Oct. 31.
Perlman said the Stratford office originally opened in about 2007 to support a customer in the region that needed parts. He said the customer is decentralizing, so KLX can now provide the parts from its other locations. KLX will maintain a small presence in the area, Perlman said.
“We don”™t need quite the expansive presence that we had before,” he said.
Perlman would not comment on the name of the customer or if the closing was related to Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. In June, Sikorsky announced it would move its Bridgeport operations to its facility in Stratford and cut 1,400 jobs worldwide this year, including about 180 in Connecticut.
