interesting that nobody thins that this foundry just might be closing because of rising productivity at existing foundaries has mde this one redundant and that total output might just remain unchanged?
Rising production costs can be due to several things, but some of the more obvious culprits are unions and prohibitive federal regulations - EPA, OSHA, EEO, etc. I don't know what the feds can legally do about unions (is Indiana a right-to-work state?), but they CAN roll back some of the regs.
Or possibility that demand is lower than production?