Material-handling automation firm Hy-Tek to cut 200 at Hesperia operation

Hy-Tek Intralogistics has filed to lay off 200 workers at its operation on Phelan Road in Hesperia, according to a state WARN notice processed June 11. The filing lists the cut as a permanent layoff.

Hy-Tek is not a warehouse operator. The firm, in business since 1963, is a material-handling automation integrator — it designs and installs the conveyor systems, storage racking, robotics, and warehouse-control software that distribution centers run on. Its customers are the operators; Hy-Tek is the vendor they hire to automate.

That makes the size of the cut worth noting on its own terms. A 200-person reduction at a single IE site of an automation firm is a sizable filing, and it lands in a High Desert market where logistics-adjacent employment has been a primary growth story.

The notice does not state a reason, and the company has not publicly described the cut. What the filing establishes is the headcount, the location, and the timing — the effective date falls in August. Whether it reflects a completed project pipeline, a facility consolidation, or softer demand for automation buildouts is not something the notice answers.

For operators tracking the IE labor market, the data point is the scale and the source: a 200-job cut, in the High Desert, at one of the firms that sells the technology reshaping warehouse headcounts.