NCR is closing its Springdale call center, which employs 334, in August after spending about 40 years in the small Lexington County town near the Columbia Metropolitan Airport.

Midlands development officials said little could be done to keep one of Lexington County's largest private employers.

The call center work is being transferred to Georgia, where NCR recently relocated its corporate headquarters and opened new distribution and call centers and a manufacturing plant.

NCR has been poised to leave Lexington County before. The company planned to close its Springdale operations until it was swayed by state development officials, who pushed tax credits and job training.

The deal was finalized by then-Gov. Jim Hodges.

"They milked the state out of incentives for 20 years, and they're moving on," Lexington County Council vice chairman William Banning said.