Bristol-based IDEX Health & Science LLC, which makes components and systems for life sciences industries, has informed the city and state that it plans to shutter its operations this fall.
Bristol-based IDEX Health & Science LLC, which makes components and systems for life sciences industries, has informed the state that it plans to shutter its operations this fall.
In a notice dated May 5 and filed with the state Department of Labor under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act), Jenniffer Meiring, the company’s vice president of human resources, said the facility at 110 Halcyon Drive will “cease operations” on or about Oct. 30, and will conduct layoffs at the facility beginning on or around July 15.
Meiring said the closing and layoffs are expected to be permanent.
“All positions at the Bristol facility will be eliminated, and the first employment terminations will occur during a 14-day period commencing on July 15,” she said. “Thereafter, terminations will occur during (a) 14-day window beginning on Oct. 30.”
In all, the layoffs will affect 73 employees. All employees have been notified of their separation dates, the notice states. Employees affected by the closing are not represented by a union.
According to a schedule of separations included with the notice, the affected employees include 25 machinists, 13 assemblers, six team leads, two senior manufacturing engineers, two production supervisors, two engineering technicians and 23 other individual positions.
In a statement provided via email by a spokesperson for IDEX, the company said the decision to close the Bristol plant is a result of the market for the products produced there changing significantly over the past several years.
“We are shifting work to another IDEX Health & Science location and have made the difficult decision to phase out production at Bristol over the next six months," the spokesperson said.
The statement added that IDEX Health is providing affected employees with severance packages and "assistance to help them transition to the next step in their career, including possibilities to transfer into roles at other IDEX locations.”
City property records show that IDEX Health has owned the building since January 2009. It was formerly owned by Eastern Plastics Inc., which was acquired by IDEX Health in 2006.
The 56,455-square-foot building sits on 5.5 acres of land zoned for industrial use and was valued in 2025 at nearly $3.6 million. The notice does not say what IDEX Health intends to do with the building.
IDEX Health & Science is a high-tech manufacturing and engineering company that makes specialized components and systems used in medical, biotechnology and laboratory equipment. The Bristol facility has focused heavily on precision plastic manifolds and fluidic assemblies used in diagnostic and life-science instruments.
Editor's note: This article was updated to include a statement provided by IDEX Health.
