The Troy, Ohio-based Hobart Brothers will build a $2.9 million-dollar facility to expand its filler metals
manufacturing operation, creating up to 40 jobs in the Buckeye State.
It will be the third facility operated by Hobart Brothers in Troy, a town of 22,000 in Miami County.
Construction begins this week in what was once a soybean field.
Plans for the 64,375 square-foot building on the 7.9-acre site were filed last week. The cost of the construction project is listed as $2,985,000.
Hobart Brothers was founded in 1917, and was family-owned and operated until its acquisition by Illinois Tool Works in 1996. ITW currently employs 1,300 residents of Troy.