MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) – Specialty Filaments, which makes bristles for a range of products, will add more than 30 jobs at its Middlebury plant as part of a consolidation plan that also calls for the company to close its factory in Burlington.

“The company has decided to put all of its manufacturing processes in its Middlebury plant,” Specialty Filaments spokesman Reggie Hockenberry told the Addison Independent. “(Middlebury) was the logical place to go.”

Competition from manufacturers in developing countries was among the reasons why Boston-based Capital Resource Partners, the investment company that owns Specialty Filaments, has reduced operations in recent years.

Specialty Filaments once had five factories in the United States and several in Europe, but after the Burlington factory closes later this summer only the Middlebury plant will remain.

Specialty Filaments’ annual sales are about $40 million.

Hockenberry also said Specialty Filaments could not expand at its Burlington location. In Middlebury, the company already owns a 120,000-square-foot facility with more than 100 employees.

After the Burlington plant closes the company will transfer roughly 30 of that factory’s 100 jobs to Middlebury along with additional manufacturing equipment.

The laid-off Burlington workers were given first shot at the new Middlebury jobs, Hockenberry said.