A 46-year-old Delta company is shutting its doors and will soon be running all of its operations out of its North Carolina plant. Prepac Manufacturing, founded in 1979 by Vancouver startup entrepreneur Steve Simpson, opened a plant in Whitsett, North Carolina in 2021, bringing manufacturing, warehousing and distribution together in one location. Only a year before, Prepac had expanded into a fourth building in Delta. …The current tariff war was not a consideration, CEO Nick Bozikis said. …”Unifor, the union representing the severed workers in Delta, questions the company’s claim that tariffs had nothing to do with the closure. …The union pointed out Prepac is the second known furniture maker to lay off workers since the onset of the trade war. South Shore, a furniture maker in Quebec, laid off 115 workers in February, citing the threat of tariffs.