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Article: Freightliner Buys Land for Manufacturing Plant Expansion in Mount Holly, N.C.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- October 3, 2001
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By Sharon E. White, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 3--MOUNT HOLLY, N.C.--Ailing Freightliner LLC has purchased 10 acres next to its Mount Holly manufacturing plant, where it plans to expand and start producing a new medium-duty truck line early next year.
Company officials hope the new truck line will help reverse the fortunes of the Portland, Ore.-based firm. Gaston County leaders hope it means hundreds of laid-off workers might be called back.
"We'll pray that that happens," said Mayor Pro Tem Bobby Black. "The truck line was encouraging by itself. Any thread of something positive, we really get ...