Once one of Sale's largest employers, just 20 employees were left when the business wound up its operations this week.

Workers spent their final weeks working for Nylex processing an order for PVC water tank liners for BlueScope Steel, producing 22000m of product per day to meet BlueScope's demands until April next year.

Workers finished the BlueScope Steel order on Wednesday and spent Thursday doing a last minute clean-up before their final meeting with receivers.

But the fate of workers' entitlements was still unknown yesterday as the Gippsland Times went to press.

National Union of Workers legal adviser Gary Maas, who has been working with the receivers, has previously said the union is hopeful all 40 of the plant's retrenched workers would receive their full entitlements.

Twenty workers made redundant in July have already received the equivalent of the General Employee Entitlements and Redundancy Scheme payments, a basic payment scheme which assists employees who lose their jobs due to liquidation or employer bankruptcy.

The remaining 20 retrenched workers finishing on Thursday were also assured of receiving GEERS payments.

Neither group of employees has received any further payments to make up their full entitlements and some are owed tens of thousands of dollars.

The Nylex company went into voluntary receivership in February and then liquidation in July.

McGrathNicol were appointed receivers with Nylex having combined debts of about $100 million.

The closure of Nylex will be felt throughout the community, as generations of families have worked at the plant in the past 56 years.