Oberg Industries is in the process of building an 80,000-square-foot multifunction manufacturing plant in Buffalo Township. The company plans to move into the facility in the spring as part of an expansion project.

BUFFALO TWP — This spring, Oberg Industries will begin to move into its new 80,000-square-foot multifunction manufacturing plant as part of the company’s expansion project.

The new building next to Oberg’s stamping plant on Route 356 will house precision machining to manufacture parts for the medical, aerospace and automotive industries. Butler contractor W.K. Thomas has been constructing the new building since April.

Oberg specializes in the production of precision machined or stamped metal components and precision tooling. The company, which has been in business for 67 years, has more than 750 employees worldwide.

According to Dave Getty, Oberg manager of corporate communications, the new facility will be created in a workcell environment that will give the company more opportunities to manufacture larger machine components. Workcells will benefit the quality, speed and the cost of manufacturing by improving process flow and eliminating waste, he said.

The new facility also will have space for the company’s apprenticeship program and training for employees.

“Over the last 10 years, we’ve been doing a lot more cross-training of all of our production staff, which makes them more valuable to us, and enables us to take people from one job area and bring them into another one when we have a large project that has to get done,” he said.

“It satisfies a lot of different things, such as making sure we’re meeting our customer commitments and deadlines, which is always truly critical.”

According to Getty, the existing plant’s 100,000-square-foot workspace is full, creating the need for another facility.

Most of the workers and equipment in the stamping plant will be moved to the new building, freeing up space at the stamping facility, which will be reconfigured for more efficiency and new projects.

Getty said the company is stockpiling components and preparing customers for production to be shut down for three to four weeks. The equipment and machinery will be moved in stages.

“We’re trying to plan as accurately as we can for the down time,” he said. “We’re not going to have our customers down without product that they need.”