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• Position: Regional Report - Pergo to expand plant in Garner NC - Atlantic Airlines to expand services - Eaton buys Powerware

GARNER -- Swedish laminated-flooring maker Pergo is spending $36 million to expand operations here, adding 86 jobs. The factory, which will make an all-purpose molding for flooring, was scheduled to open in August with 54 employees. The rest of the new jobs will be in Pergo's existing plant. They will increase employment to nearly 315 in North Carolina. All are here.

DURHAM -- Melbourne, Fla.-based Harris, which makes telecommunications equipment, plans to move its microwave-communications division here from Redwood Shores, Calif. The move, which will begin this year, will create about 260 jobs by 2009. If the company meets its performance goals, it will receive about $4 million in state incentives over 10 years. Its research-and-development operation, which employs about 60, moved here in 2002.

RALEIGH -- Austin, Texas-based forest-products and packaging manufacturer Temple-Inland closed its cardboard-box factory here, idling 85 workers.

RALEIGH -- Independence Air, the low-cost air service of Dulles, Va.-based Atlantic Coast Airlines, began flights from Raleigh-Durham International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport. One-way fares start at $49, and the company anticipated having 14 daily flights by mid-July.

RALEIGH -- Cleveland, Ohio-based Eaton, which makes automotive, aerospace, electrical and other parts, bought Powerware, which makes portable power supplies for computers and other electronic devices, from London-based Invensys for $560 million. Powerware is based here, where it has 600 employees.

DURHAM -- Parata Systems plans to nearly double employment to 100 by the end of 2005. The company, founded in 2001, develops $185,000 robots that dispense, label, cap and sort pharmacy prescriptions.

CHAPEL HILL -- UNC Hospitals is seeking state permission for a $5.6 million expansion that would add 43 acute-care beds, bringing the total to 625. The expansion needs approval from the state Division of Facility Services. UNC hopes to begin construction in 2005 and complete it by 2008.

DURHAM -- Inspire Pharmaceuticals began a trial of its dry-eye treatment diquafosol tetrasodium. The study, which it plans to complete by mid-2005, was ordered in January by the U. S. Food...