A flooring manufacturer is shutting down its Gaston County factory, laying off almost 300 employees right after Christmas.
New Jersey-based Mannington Mill is closing its McAdenville plant on Dec. 27, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) filed recently with the North Carolina Department of Commerce. All 296 employees will be laid off permanently.
The site was the former Pharr plant, a McAdenville-based yarn manufacturer, which started in 1939. Pharr left the yarn business in 2020, selling the company to Mannington Mill…