WINONA, Minn. – The company BCS Automotive Interface Solutions has confirmed the shut-down of its Winona factory in the airport industrial park. As annon]unced in March, the final batch of employees, 117 total, will be laid off in next two weeks. The factory, owned since 2018 by a global conglomerate based in Radolfzel, Germany, has gradually shifted from manufacturing electromechanical controls and intelligent sensors to importing them from China.
Eery stillness. At factory at 5675 Industrial Park Road.
BCS profile
A BCS predecessor was the vaunted TRW that designed and built components for missile weapon systems and aerospace exploration. In 1986 the company was 57th on the Fortune 500 list of highest revenue U.S. companies and had 122,000 employees in 25 countries. But TRW was sliced and diced and lost its identity in a series of mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations in recent decades.