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What Mannington Mills layoffs have meant for employees

When Mannington bought the Phenix and Pharr carpet businesses at the start of Covid, it planned to keep running Pharr's plants in McAdenville and Dalton, Textile World reported in February 2020. The deal had "checked all the boxes," Pendley later told FCNews, and with what the company knew then, he wouldn't have decided differently. The October 2025 announcement put McAdenville and Dalton on the closing list, with the Chatsworth finisher Mannington had added in 2022, as the company set out to leave residential carpet altogether. At its peak, the carpet business brought in about $200 million in revenue, split between home centers and independent retailers, by Floor Focus's estimate in the Floor Daily story on the announcement.

The Georgia notice covered every job at both worksites. The number of employees affected at Dalton and at Chatsworth equals each worksite's whole headcount in Georgia's WARN record, and the notice expected all of them to go on one date, December 27, 2025, so nobody there was picked over a coworker. The jobs it lists run from creeler, machine and forklift operators, drivers and laborers to accountants, analysts, customer service, sales support and carpet design, putting office and plant jobs on the same notice. The people being let go "did nothing wrong," Pendley told FCNews. If a hiring manager asks about the gap after Phenix, Pharr or Georgia Carpet Finishers, you can point to the site's permanent closing, and explaining a layoff has ideas for how to say it.

The company has put the exit down to the carpet market, and Pendley told FCNews it had misjudged how far that market would fall. "We thought two years ago that carpet had hit its bottom," he said, before adding that it still hadn't. Mannington's earlier cut on record, in 2017, also followed a decision about a product line, the sale of its vinyl composition tile business, NJBIZ reported, and chief executive Russell Grizzle, quoted by NJ Advance Media, said it "would be a greater business decision if it didn't affect people and the community." Two rounds don't make a policy, though, and what happened in either one doesn't bind the next decision Mannington makes, about jobs or about severance.

Some of the carpet work was to carry on elsewhere. Mannington said it would move portions of the North Carolina yarn processing and the Chatsworth finishing to its Calhoun, Georgia campus and put some of the carpet assets to use in its commercial carpet business. It also said its Calhoun, Madison, Salem, Eustis and Amtico International operations would keep running as normal, with its attention on hard surface flooring, commercial flooring and Amtico. Mannington didn't anticipate McAdenville employees having the opportunity to exercise bumping rights, Queen City News reported. The Calhoun openings it said it would focus on filling with affected associates were one possibility for staying with the company, though the announcement didn't say how many there were. If you were offered one, you might work out what getting to Calhoun would cost each week.

North Carolina unemployment benefits has the claim rules for McAdenville workers, and Georgia unemployment benefits has them for Dalton and Chatsworth. If your Mannington health plan stopped when the job did, how COBRA works explains what continuing that coverage involves, and if you had a 401(k) through the company, 401(k) after a layoff goes through the choices for that money.