Plant closing to cost 400 jobs (employed 7,700 people at its peak)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

Published Wednesday March 31, 2010

The Connectivity Solutions Manufacturing Inc. plant in Millard will close, leaving about 400 manufacturing employees at the sprawling facility without jobs by the end of 2011.

CommScope Inc., a Hickory, N.C.-based company that makes communications network equipment, announced Wednesday that the layoffs will start in April and that the plant will cease operations in late 2011.

The plant, which opened in 1958 and formerly went by the names Western Electric and Avaya, among others, employed 7,700 people at its peak.

When the plant near 120th and L Streets first opened on the metro area's fringe, it served as a spark in Omaha's suburban expansion.

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