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By Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer Updated 10:10 PM Thursday, April 30, 2009

A union official expects Tenneco’s Kettering plant to be affected by General Motors’ planned summer shutdown.

Harry Bogan, regional director for the International Union of Electronic Workers-Communication Workers of America, said the company has told union officials there will be an effect beyond the plant’s usual two-week July shutdown.

With some 300 workers, the plant off Woodman Drive makes ride control parts for GM passenger cars.

“They have told us there will be an impact,” Bogan said.

A company spokesman said he had no immediate information on the effect of GM’s planned summer shutdown of 13 assembly operations on Tenneco’s Kettering plant.

Bogan said the plant’s “book of business” with GM is large enough to make an impact inescapable.

Tenneco Inc. on Thursday reported a net loss of $49 million for the first quarter of 2009, down from net earnings of $6 million in the first quarter of 2008.

The result for the three months that ended March 31, 2009 amounted to a loss of $1.05 per basic diluted share, down from earnings of 14 cents per basic diluted share in the first quarter last year.

Net sales and operating revenue reached $967 million for the first quarter, down from $1.56 billion in the first quarter last year, the company said.

In early 2008, Tenneco leased about 930,000 square feet of the Woodman plant from bankrupt Delphi. Tenneco also purchased ride control components and machinery from Delphi.

GM last week said it was scheduling “multiple down weeks” at 13 assembly operations in North America. Some 190,000 vehicles will be removed from GM’s North American production schedule in the second and early third quarter of this year, the automaker said.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgnau@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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