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Jul 10, 2009 12:30 pm US/Eastern

Nearly 300 Lose Jobs As Fall River Company Closes

FALL RIVER (WBZ) ― Fall River has one of the worst unemployment rates in the state and now the city has been hit with more bad news.

Silver Line Building Products, a window and door maker, closed its plant Friday putting nearly 300 people out of work.

Silver Line, a division of Anderson Windows, built the 200,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility on a 15-acre parcel in 2001 for $13.1 million.

At its peak, more than 500 people worked there, but that's declined because of a drop in demand for the products over the last few years.

Company spokeswoman Maureen McDonough told The Herald News the site will maintain a skeleton staff.

Fall River's 13.9 percent unemployment rate is the second worst in Massachusetts.

Silver Line is based in North Brunswick, N.J.

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