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NCR Corp. has laid off workers at its ATM-manufacturing plant in Carrollton, Texas, and the company will discontinue making two lines of ATMs for the retail market–the EasyPoint 3300 and EasyPoint 3600 models, according to a company spokesperson. Last Thursday, Dayton, Ohio-based NCR handed pink slips to 14 employees who work at the NCR EasyPoint factory. The spokesperson declined to say how many workers the plant employs and how many models of ATMs the factory makes. The layoffs and the company's decision to discontinue production of certain models do not mean NCR is abandoning the retail-ATM business, the spokesperson tells ATM&Debit News, a CardLine sister publication. "This decision was part of our continuing evaluation of our customer needs and the evolution of our products and solutions to address market requirements," he wrote in an e-mail message. NCR entered the retail-ATM business in 2005, when the company purchased Tidel Technologies Inc. for $10 million. NCR later changed Houston-based Tidel's name to NCR Easypoint.
