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BOONVILLE, MO. -- A Boonville manufacturing plant is closing after 24 years.

Officials with INDEECO announced they are relocating 65 Boonville jobs to their expanded location in Monroe City.

Company officials said that Boonville employees can keep their jobs, if they are willing to work in a different plant.

INDEECO company officials said they are moving their facilities in Boonville and Meadville, Pennsylvania to their expanded plant in Monroe City to stay competitive in the manufacturing business of electric heating and control systems.  Their Cuba, Missouri plant will not be affected by the changes.  The company’s president said it was a difficult decision to make since their Boonville plant has been in operation for the past 24 years.

INDEECO President John Eulich said, “I really want people to recognize that it’s not any reflection on the quality or the caliber of the people there.  We would really like as many people as possible to stay with us, to commute or move to the Monroe City area.”

Not everyone working at the Boonville plant lives in Boonville.  Company officials said some of their employees are already commuting from as far away as Centralia, California and Moberly.  Some INDEECO employees live halfway between the Boonville plant and the Monroe City plant.  That would make it easy for those employees to commute in the opposite direction.  Company officials have not set a deadline for the closure of their Boonville plant.

Eulich said, “We’ll continue to run it for a while, but we will not lease it after we’ve closed down.”

Company officials did not allow us to talk to any Boonville employees about the plant’s closure.

The INDEECO changes bring 85 new jobs to the company and about 20 new jobs to the State of Missouri.