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• ACS and Southern Pine begin operations in Cherryville.
• AKsys USA, Inc. will expand its facility.
• Bartlett Bearing Company will build a 10,000 square-foot distribution facility in Delta Business Park.
• Bernhardt Furniture Co. Acquires Cherryville Building For Making Chairs and Sofas
• Buckeye Technologies’ $100 Million Airlaid Nonwoven Plant — The World’s Largest — Begins Test Operations
• Castlegate Construction Co. Builds $1 Million "Spec" Shell Facility And Quickly Leases It To CWW Gerko
• Clariant Corporation Announces $50 Million Expansion Of Mount Holly Plant To Make Special Additive For Tide With Bleach Detergent
• Upscale Manufacturer
• Cross Automation completes its $5 million plant in Belmont.
• Gaston County EDC Wins Awards From CSX Transportation And From Southern Economic Development Council
• GeoProductions, 3-D Animation And Mapping Company For PGA and Network TV, Relocates From Cary To Gastonia
• EDC Executive Director Donny Hicks Named Practitioner Of The Year By N.C. Economic Developers Association
• Hi-Tex Invests $5 Million In Renovated Kings Mountain Plant To Make New Stain-Resistant Crypton Fabric
• Mirant’s $500-Million Gas-Fired Power Plant Is Largest Industrial Announcement In Gaston County History
• Newcan Co. Of Massachusetts Opens Gastonia Plant To Make Perforated Metal Components For Wix And Others
• Neworld, Inc. will open a manufacturing and distribution facility in Ranlo for home textiles.
• Ortronics, Inc., Relocates High-Tech Products Lines To Pass & Seymour/Legrand’s New Gastonia Facility
• Outdoor Lifestyle Moves Into Larger Plant In Stanley For Manufacturing Aluminum Chairs And Furnishings
• Parkdale Mills, World’s Largest Independent Yarn Company, Moves Into Dramatic New World Headquarters
• Redwood Capital, LLC, Completes Third Spec Building, This Time In Their Own Redwood Business Park In Gaston
• Röchling Engineered Plastics Expands Gastonia Plant With New $1 Million Stock Storage Facility