Caterpillar to expand North Little Rock operations, add 250 employees

FILE PHOTO: A motor grader moves down the assembly line in August 2010 at the Caterpillar manufacturing plant in North Little Rock.
FILE PHOTO: A motor grader moves down the assembly line in August 2010 at the Caterpillar manufacturing plant in North Little Rock.

Caterpillar said Thursday it will expand its North Little Rock operations with the hiring of another 250 workers and an investment of another $40 million by 2020.

The plant currently has 522 employees, including contract workers.

Based in Illinois, the worldwide manufacturer of heavy equipment opened in North Little Rock in 2010 to produce motor graders. Caterpillar last year began constructing medium-wheel front loaders in North Little Rock because of the closure of an Illinois plant.

Starting next year, the company also will be using the North Little Rock facility for producing cold planers and rotary mixers, which are used in paving projects. Those machines also previously had been produced in Aurora.

Read Friday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.

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