“We need the additional room and more employees,” Olwin said Thursday. “This new building (on Kuntz) suits us much better than the other one.”
Montgomery County property records show he purchased two parcels of land along Commerce Park Drive as well as adjoining property at 1933 and 1955 Kuntz Road in an industrial area of North Dayton.
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The sale price was $382,000, with records identifying Craft Real Estate as the seller. The purchase was recorded late last week.
1933 Kuntz was the address for Weldcraft Products Inc. The nearby Commerce Park Drive parcels total less than an acre.
After the four-mile move, 1933 Kuntz will be Olwin’s new address. Today, Olwin has five workers, but he said he could employ 10 to 15, if he could find the right people.
“Everybody in the area is pretty busy, fabrication-wise,” he said. “I know our biggest downfall — and everybody’s biggest downfall — is finding talented workers, skilled workers.”
That’s a familiar lament for Dayton manufacturers.
“There’s a major shortage right now, I think, across the board in manufacturing,” he said.
Olwin and Joe Stehle founded Olwin Metal Fabrication in 2011, the company’s web site says.
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The buyer is a limited liability company Olwin registered with the state last August, OMF Properties.
Olwin produces automation equipment and works on production tooling, machine bases, machine weldment work and more.
The new building will also give Olwin greater lifting capacity — from 20,000 to 40,000 pounds, he said.
“The bigger the better, in our case,” Olwin said of the jobs his company prefers. “We like the big stuff.”
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