Business Journal: Thermo Fisher Scientific to close Brown Deer facility

BROWN DEER (WITI) --  FOX6′s media partners at the Milwaukee Business Journal are reporting that Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. plans to close its transplant diagnostics products business in Brown Deer by December 31st, 2015. 

The closure will affect 54 employees.

The Business Journal is reporting that employees will be laid off over the next 18 months, with the first terminations on or about December 31st.

The company will be transferring its transplant diagnostics division to California.

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