Certain salaried employees at Werner Co. have received written notice that their jobs will expire as a result of the company pulling out its ladder line.

The notice is required under the federal Plant Closing law, which requires employers to tell employees their jobs are being terminated as a result of a plant closing or a major restructuring.

On March 27, Werner announced it was folding its ladder and related lines from its Sugar Grove Township plant, resulting in 500 jobs being lost.

Company officials said they expect 450 hourly and 50 salaried jobs to end by the end of the summer. However, company officials wouldn't say Thursday how many salaried workers have been notified.

United Steelworkers, which represents production and maintenance workers at the plant, are still in severance negotiations with the company.

Employing 1,050, Werner said 500 jobs will remain at the Greenville-area plant, with those jobs being held in its aluminum extrusion line, fiberglass pultrusion, remelt and extruded products fabrication and corporate headquarters.

Werner said it had to move the line because of overseas competition and because the plant wasn't competitive with Werner's other American plants. Negotiations with the USW over saving the line broke down; union leaders said it would have taken an unbearable $11 an hour in labor concessions to keep the ladder line.