Tasmania has suffered a second jobs blow in as many days with car parts manufacturer ACL to close its doors and shed 136 employees.
Receiver Matt Byrnes says the Launceston plant will close by mid-2014 after a buyer for the business, which produces engine components, could not be found.
"Unfortunately once the parties were down to looking at whether they could make a viable business case to operate ACL down here in Tasmania into the future they weren't able to come to a conclusion they could put an offer in on that basis," Mr Byrnes told AAP.
He said the high Australian dollar was also a factor for the export-oriented business.
The announcement comes a day after Australian Weaving Mills announced 50 jobs would be lost when it closes its operation in Devonport.
ACL went into receivership in 2009 and had lost more than 150 employees since then.
The receiver will now turn its attention to the company's Tasmanian assets, while ACL operations in Brisbane and Auckland remain for sale.
Workers' entitlements will be paid by the federal government's General Entitlements and Redundancy Scheme with redundancies to begin in October, Mr Byrnes said.
He said it was expected the plant would operate at close to full capacity before an "orderly wind-down" beginning early next year.
Tasmania's north has been hit hard by hundreds of manufacturing job losses in recent years and another 300 are under threat at food producer Simplot.
The state has Australia's highest unemployment rate at 8.1 per cent.
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