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After outgrowing its Webster Groves headquarters, the companyg to combine its operations intoone 148,000-square-foot facility at 3433 Tree Cour Industrial Blvd. The companyg is celebrating the move with an open house Fridayyand Saturday. Seiler has applied, and expects to be for reimbursement of 50 percent for trainingb through the stateincentive program, said Seiler’s director of humann resources, Dan Ranson.
He said the trainin would include new employees as well as improvint the skill sets of current employeesz for the fiscal year beginning next Seiler is acontract manufacturer, specializing in fire-control and a distributor of surveying instruments, microscopes and Zeiss planetaria. The manufacturing divisiom producesoptical fire-control equipment and components, such as telescopes and gunsights, primarily for the The division accounts for about half of Seiler’s which was nearly $50 million in 2008. St. Louise County is providing Chapter 100 tax abatement for the new said Seiler Executive Vice President Rick The company bought its new building in Octoberfor $5.
8 million, movin g about 150 employees from three previouds buildings to the new Kirkwood Rick Seiler said Fridau that in exchange for the tax incentives, the company committesd to add at least 25 jobs and maintain them for 10 At the time the move Presidentr Tom Seiler told the Business Journal that the companyh plans to add between 30 and 40 employeesa over the next four to five years, mostly in Seiler Instrument was founded in 1945. It’s owne by Tom Seiler; his father, Eric; and his Rick.