The local campus, which includes a total of 14 buildings, hadmore than 900 staffers at its peak. The site, which serves as theheadquarters for the company's personal care, ecological servicesand phosphate manufacturing divisions, has already been reduced tosome 650 employees, and another 150 jobs are slated to be cut bythe end of the year, according to company officials.

Company officials also declined to say where Rhodia might bemoving its local operations, or even whether they would state inNew Jersey. Rhodia has locations in a total of 11 other statesbesides New Jersey. Officials also declined to provide detailsabout the pending sale.

The company's local campus has a three-story R&D center asits centerpiece. General Foods was the original occupant of thesite, followed by the parent company of Citgo, which sold it toRhone-Poulenc in 1990.