Power Partners Inc., citing a continued slow market for transformers, says it will furlough most of the workers at its plant here for more than a week in November.

Don Carton, the company's human resources director, says Power Partners will furlough a group of employees who make the larger components of the transformers on Nov. 9. The rest of the assembly workers will work through Nov. 10 before taking furloughs.

Carton says the first group of employees will return on Nov. 19, while the others will start back Nov. 23.

The company employs about 400 people. During the furlough period, Carton says about 50 employees will handle shipping requests and help make and test improvements to the company's computer systems.