Job cuts at three companies in Indiana will put 400 more Hoosiers into the unemployment line.Automotive supplier Columbus Components Group has decided to part with 135 employees starting next month, according to a published report.

And in a letter to Mayor Fred Armstrong announcing the cuts, CCG President Richard Holmes says the possibility of a total plant closing remains on the table, the Republic reported on its Web site.

Holmes said CCG had been informed by “more than one client” that they were withdrawing their sales orders and it would result in a “significant decrease in anticipated sales volumes due to factors beyond the company’s control,” the newspaper reported.

CCG’s 475,000-square-foot facility manufactures high-quality, precision engineered metal stampings and assemblies for the light vehicle automotive, heavy-duty truck, and industrial markets, according to its Web site.Also, Fort Wayne Foundry Corp. plans to lay off 52 workers May 31 at its Machining Division plant and also close a separate foundry the same day, costing 174 workers their jobs, the Journal Gazette reports, citing WARN notices received by the State Department of Workforce Development. Fort Wayne Foundry depends heavily on General Motors Corp. for its business.And book and media dealer Amazon.com has decided to lay off 45 workers in Munster as part of a facility closure on May 25, the DWD reported, after receiving a letter from the company on Wednesday.

The recession claimed industrial and retail jobs at a furious pace in January, pushing Indiana’s unemployment rate to 9.2 percent.CLICK HEREto read that story.

Indiana is scheduled tomorrow to report its jobless numbers for February.