A Salina company says it will layoff 22 employees because of a drop in demand for fluorescent lamps.

Philips Lighting announced Wednesday the employees who will lose their jobs in November help make fluorescent lamps.

Philips Lighting spokesman Silvie Casanova says Philips will employ just less than 400 people in Salina after the layoffs. She also says the plant is not filling open positions.

The layoffs, amounting to a 5% cut at one Salina’s largest employers,  come just 19 months after the city of Salina agreed to give Philips $750,000 in grants to secure an expansion that would bring more jobs to the facility.

Plant manager Dan Mendicina says the jobs being eliminated were not among those added with the city and state money. And he says jobs added through those programs likely saved the plant from more layoffs.