The employees’ last days at the Holladay-based company will be between Sept. 1 and year’s end, the company confirmed Wednesday. The 70 workers will come from its manufacturing division, which currently has 132 employees in Utah.
The biggest product in that division is carabiners — the metal clips used by climbers to rafters to hikers.
John Dicuollo of Backbone Media, which represents Black Diamond, on Wednesday said Black Diamond wants to get more innovative with how it manufactures carabiners — making them lighter and stronger — and didn’t feel it could achieve that in Utah.
“There are a slew of other reasons [for moving the manufacturing],” Dicuollo said .