A Wendell clothing manufacturer is laying off 118 workers as it consolidates operations from three facilities to two locations in the state.

Mortex Corp., which currently employs 293 people, notified the N.C. Department of Commerce on Monday of the job cuts. It said some employees "may be offered" transfers.

The 29-year-old company said in its notice to state officials that it is shutting down its sewing facility in Princeton and consolidating sewing operations at its Middlesex facility.

Wendell will remain as the corporate office and the site for fabric receiving and centralized cutting.

An Iowa company that makes athletic clothing is going out of business and will shut a factory in Clinton, N.C., with more than 80 workers.

Dodger Industries will take another six weeks to fill its last orders and sell its assets to repay suppliers and creditors, CEO Stephen Throssel told the Des Moines Register.

He blamed the demise of the company, founded in 1940 as Dodger Gym Co., on foreign competition, shrinking market share and declining clothing prices.

"It's a sad time. We're a family. There's been a lot of crying, a lot of anger, a lot of resentment," he said. "We're grieving."

The company employs 10 people in Iowa, so the bulk of the layoffs will hit the Clinton facility, which Dodger bought in 1994. The factory is located about 65 miles southeast of Raleigh.