Reports suggest the Chicago-based firm has already contacted the Connecticut Department of Labor about the closures, which come on the heels of RR Donnelley shutting a plant in nearby Windsor, CT in March, resulting in 117 layoffs.
In recent years, RR Donnelley has also closed print facilities in Colorado and the US Midwest even as it builds out managed printing and integrated communications services.
The Danbury facility was originally founded nearly 70 years ago and became Danbury Print & Litho in 1964. It was acquired by the Banta Corp. in the mid-1990s and RR Donnelley took over ownership when it acquired Banta in 2007.
The 160,000sqft plant primarily focuses on direct mail – both self-mailers and postcards – as well as catalogs, booklets, FSIs and bagtail and trans-promo inserts. It features HP inkjet proofing; Epson and Fuji contract color proofing, and up to six-color full and half-web printing.
The closure announcement came the same week that RR Donnelley announced the purchase of financial data provider Edgar Online for more than $70 million, including debt, as it continues to expand its online offerings.
EDGAR Online has already been providing XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) services to R.R. Donnelley Financial Services for the past four years.
