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S.C. boatbuilder relocates in its home state

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Harleyville, S.C.-based Carolina Composites is relocating its manufacturing operations, but has nixed its plans to move to Georgia.

Carolina Composites, which makes Pioneer Boats, plans to invest $5 million in a Walterboro, S.C., plant, according to The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C. The company plans to add 100 employees to its roster of 40 workers.

The company announced earlier this year a plan to relocate its operations to Claxton, Ga. It had planned to start production in January, according to the paper.

“The short of it is, we got them back into our neck of the woods,” Peter H. Arnoti, executive director of the Colleton County Economic Alliance, told the paper.

Pioneer Boats makes center-console bay, fishing and ski boats in lengths from 17 to 22 feet.

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