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A rug manufacturer about 100 miles northwest of Raleigh last week notified 141 workers that they will be laid off.
Mohawk Industries, based in Calhoun, Ga., blamed the layoffs at its Karastan Rug Mill and Karastan Sevice Center on "the global economic downturn and a dramatic decrease in sales," according to a layoff notice sent last week to the N.C. Department of Commerce.
The facility in Eden employs 326 people. About 185 will remain after the layoff.
John Murawski has been a full-time newspaper reporter since 1991, with stints at Legal Times and The Chronicle of Philanthropy (both in Washington, DC), The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Palm Beach Post (in South Florida) before arriving at the N&O in December 2004. At the N&O he covers energy (nuclear, coal, renewable, efficiency), utilities (electric, natural gas, telephone) and telecommunications. His beat includes such publicly traded companies as Progress Energy, Duke Energy, PSNC Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas, PowerSecure International, Tekelec, Cisco Systems, AT&T, among others. You can reach him at 919-829-8932 or e-mail him.
