Centerline on fast lane to growth

LONGMONT – Unlike many business owners, Larry Haynes never worried much about when Centerline Power Corp. might recover from the Great Recession. In fact, the Centerline owner sort of likes recessions.

That’s because Centerline largely has been immune to them since its founding in 1990.

Centerline, which manufactures aftermarket fuel-injection components for large diesel engines in the marine, rail and stationary power-generation industries, thrived during the recent economic downturn. Slow is something Haynes said recently that Centerline has never been – outside of a few months in its earliest days.

“We’re basically in the toothpaste and toilet paper business, things you have got…