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You are right , I should have said the company that owns Ryobi . The company I work for used to machine parts for John Deere Consumer Products ( Homelite ) . We made parts for the generators and demolition saws . We made parts for John Deere ( Yellow ) , Homelite ( Red ) and Atlas Copco ( Butterscotch Yellow ) . The only difference was the color . Deer had plants in Gastonia ,NC , Clover, SC , and Greer , SC that we did work for . We made parts for over 1/4 million generators in preperation for Y2K ! I hear that JD still has lots ands lots of generator parts still unused . Deere built a plant in Mexico a few years ago to build the string trimmers and blowers . They closed the Gastonia plant ( about 900 employees if I remember right ) soon after that . The Clover plant soon followed ( around 100-200 or so employees ) . Greer is the last to go . They are machining cylinders and pistons for the plant in Mexico . Greer will likely close down in a month or two . I have been to all of the plants many times and knew a lot of good people there . John Deere has a good program to help these folks out . I just hate to see these people loose their jobs . Don't blame NAFTA though . Blame the greedy people at Deere who make the decisions . Ford Man
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