Marvin Wood Products will install new saws inside a 20,000-square-foot addition to its Baker City factory over the next three years.

The company, based in Warroad, Minnesota, won’t necessarily add to its workforce of 155 at the Baker City plant, but the upgrade will make it possible to process more wood and hire new employees if demand increases in the future, said Sandi Fuller, the company’s human resources director in Baker City.

The addition to the west side of the Baker City plant, at 3665 17th St., will house a new optical scanner and allow the company to combine its wood-cutting and wood-ripping operations in the same building, Fuller said.

Currently there are separate areas for ripping (cutting wood to proper widths) and cutting (cutting wood to proper lengths).

“The state-of-the-art machinery and factory expansion are crucial to supplying the wood needs for Marvin Windows and Doors and Integrity Windows and Doors in a timely manner,” Baker plant manager Everett Vassar said in a press release.

Company officials declined to say how much the expansion will cost.

The workforce at the Baker City plant — 150 hourly employees and five managers — produces cut stock ponderosa pine for other Marvin plants that assemble doors and window frames, Fuller said.