Utz Brands has announced it is closing the company’s Golden Flake Birmingham manufacturing facility in July.

The decision means about 175 employees will be laid off from the 275 member workforce. About 100 will remain in distribution operations.

The company made the disclosure during an SEC filing on April 24. Pre-tax cash charges of approximately $3 million to $5 million are expected to be incurred because of the closure.

Utz Quality Foods, based in Hanover, Penn., purchased Golden Enterprises, Golden Flake’s parent company, in 2016 for $141 million.

Golden Flake was founded in 1923 in the basement of a Hill’s Grocery store in north Birmingham.

In addition to flavored chips such as Sweet Heat, cheese puffs, cheese curls, tortilla chips and snack crackers are made at the historic Golden Flake factory in Birmingham