Times Fiber Communications to close Pittsylvania plant

Times Fiber Communications plans to shutter its Pittsylvania County facility by Halloween, leaving 78 employees out of work.

Layoffs will begin at the end of August and be completed by the end of October, according to a June 29 letter sent to the state in compliance with the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires written notice before significant plant closings or mass layoffs.

The facility at 380 Tightsqueeze Industrial Road in Chatham produces cable products.

The bulk of employees losing their jobs are craft workers. Other affected positions include accountants, process engineers and supervisors.

The United Steelworkers Local 9428 represents 38 employees. A request for comment wasn’t immediately returned Tuesday.

“Our plan is to provide as much support and assistance to the dislocated workers,” Human Resources Director Sarah Dwyer wrote in the letter to the state. “These services will be shared with our employees over the course of the next few weeks.”

Dwyer declined to comment Tuesday on the reason for the facility’s closure.

Times Fiber Communications is a subsidiary of Amphenol Broadband Solutions, a Connecticut-based telecommunications company. It reported record sales of $7.6 billion in the first quarter of 2026, after closing on its $10.5 billion acquisition of CommScope’s connectivity and cable business in January.

In 2024, Amphenol celebrated the Chatham facility’s 50th anniversary. In a video about the milestone posted to YouTube, the company featured several employees who had worked at the operation for more than four decades.

Judy Pearson started at Times Fiber Communications as a production employee on the third shift and later retired as director of quality assurance.

“I found a lot of possibilities in TFC Chatham and also with Amphenol,” she said in the video. “It allowed me to grow with the company, complete my education and learn a lot about the business.”