Bluefield – A manufacturer of modular living space expects his Mercer County factory to be opened in the fourth quarter of 2025 for the first production.
Omnis Building Technologies provides for having a gentle opening between October and December of this year, said Mathew Hart, Vice President of Human Resources for Omnis. The work is located along John Nash Boulevard near the Bluefield Area Transit Facility and exit 1 of Interstate 77.
“The company is pleased to start the hiring process for mechanics, maintenance technicians, electricians and other important support positions in the next three to four months. The expected start data of employees in mid -Q3 2025 (July to September),” said Hart. “These first positions help with the final installation and commissioning of all production facilities used to manufacture CIBU panels (composed isolated construction units), a revolutionary building materials technology that creates the future for affordable and sustainable apartments.”
After the first setting phase, phase 2 will include the setting of the facility managers and department supervisory authorities, which will probably take place in the later part of the period from July to September, said Hart. Managers and superiors will be decisive in phase 3 of the setting process in order to build up the production staff and train employees in order to start limited production (Soft Opening) in the fourth 2025.
“We are incredibly grateful to the Bluefield Economic Development Authority as well as the incredible support and partnership of the West Virginia Economic Development Authority and the Governorburos,” said Hart. “We look forward to leading the production system and recognizing the completion of this exciting and revolutionary project.”
In July 2023, Omnis Building Technologies Bluefield, LLC, closed the purchase of land along John Nash Boulevard, which is located near exit 1 of Interstate 77. Omnis has built a 150,000 square meter production facility at the location.
As soon as it opens up, the system will produce isolated construction units that are used to build dormitories. The plan is the construction of 3,000 residential units per year in Bluefield. According to the company, components built in the Omnis are sent on site and then compiled on site to produce pre -developed houses. As soon as they have been delivered to their locations, they are used to easily build the residents of Turn buttons.
Jonathan Hodson, President of Omnis Building Technologies Bluefield, LLC, said in August 2024 that Omnis planned to start his operations by Mercer County earlier, but complications created by the Covid 19 pandemy caused delays in the production of production equipment and care.
At that time, Hodson said that Omnis had “an enormous struggle” in the episodes of pandemic. Everything, from steel to concrete and the electrical switching equipment that the system needs, was difficult to reach and delayed shipping.
The then governor of Senator Jim Justice, Rw.va. The facility is expected to employ up to 300 employees if they are in full production.
“What you have achieved in Bluefield is incredible,” said Justice about the economic development in this area, after “negotiating” with the economic turndown in connection with the decline in the coal industry. “You dug out and let incredible things happen … here we are with another incredible announcement in West Virginia.”
Omnis visited Bluefield for the first time in December 2020. The process of bringing a facility to Bluefield began in 2021, said Hodson and added that everyone on state and local levels let everything happen, in particular Jim Spencer, former director of economic development and head of the Bluefield Economic Development Authority (Beda).
“They were constantly in their efforts to further develop this project,” he said.
Hodson said Spencer and the Beda had made the “hard work and vision for Bluefield” available to give the required thrust, and Spencer presented Bluefield Omnis and what the city has to offer.
His family had been involved in specific technologies for three generations, said Hodson at the time, and the company emerged from the idea that a “home the backbone of society” and the conviction that “everyone should have the opportunity to have their own home”.
The Omnishäuser are energy -efficient, prefabricated systems from concrete isolated building units (CIBU) that are sent and then put together on site to produce pre -developed houses, said Hodson. Once delivered, it is timely houses.
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