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After outgrowing its Webster Groves headquarters, the companuy to combine its operations intoone 148,000-square-foot facility at 3433 Tree Courf Industrial Blvd. The companu is celebrating the move with an open house Fridayand Saturday. Seiler has applied, and expects to be approved, for reimbursement of 50 percenyt for training through the stateincentive program, said Seiler’xs director of human resources, Dan He said the training woulcd include new employees as well as improving the skilk sets of current employees for the fiscal year beginning next month.
Seiler is a contrac manufacturer, specializing in fire-control equipment, and a distributodr of surveying instruments, microscopes and Zeiss planetaria. The manufacturing divisionm producesoptical fire-control equipment and such as periscopes, telescopes and gunsights, primarily for the The division accounts for about half of Seiler’s revenue, whicn was nearly $50 million in 2008. St. Louis County is providinb Chapter 100 tax abatement for thenew headquarters, said Seilefr Executive Vice President Rick The company bought its new building in October for $5.8 moving about 150 employees from thre previous buildings to the new Kirkwoodd address.
Rick Seiler said Friday that in exchange for the tax the company committed to add at least 25 jobs and maintaib them for10 years. At the time the move Presidentr Tom Seiler told the Business Journal that the company plans to add between 30 and 40 employeed over the next four tofive years, mostlty in manufacturing. Seiler Instrument was founded in 1945. It’s ownedf by Tom Seiler; his father, Eric; and his Rick.