BE Avionics to Close Plant in Garden Grove

BE Avionics Inc., the Santa Ana maker of equipment for the interiors of airliners, is planning to shut down a newly acquired aircraft-seat manufacturing plant in Garden Grove and lay off about 100 employees.

Spokesman Jay Jacobson said that PTC Aerospace Inc. will be closed and its operations consolidated at PTC’s headquarters in Bantam, Conn.

Some of the employees will be offered positions in Bantam and others will be offered sales or support positions in Southern California, Jacobson said. He could not say how many employees will be retained.

BE Avionics acquired PTC and another aircraft-seat maker in February from the Pullman Co. in Livingston, N.J., for $74 million.

The plant has been in operation since 1979. Employees will get at least two weeks’ severance pay, depending on length of employment.