Sunrise Wood Products Inc., a Spokane-based manufacturer of custom doors, mantels, and moldings, plans to move to a bigger facility next spring from its current location near the Iron Bridge Corporate Campus.


Sunrise will occupy a 50,000-square foot plant at 4308 N. Barker that its parent company, Lumber Products Inc., of Tualatin, Ore., is developing, says Sunrise General Manager Scott Richner. Baker Construction & Development Corp., of Spokane, is the general contractor on the project, which began in September, Richner says. J.R. Bonnett Engineering, of Spokane, designed the building.


The new plant will be located on a 20-acre site near the southeast corner of Trent and Barker that Lumber Products owns. Richner declines to disclose the cost of the project.


Sunrise employs 23 people at its 35,000-square-foot factory at 629 N. Erie. It expects to double production of custom doors to about 2,000 doors a month and hire up to 15 people in two years after the move, Richner says. The new plant also will have new equipment, he says.


Richner declines to disclose Sunrises revenues.


Sunrise provides wholesale products to Lumber Products distribution branches in seven states, and it sells some wholesale products, typically to contractors. Lumber Products is a private concern with about 640 employees, Richner says.


Lumber Products bought Sunrise in 1999 from Spokanes Jeff Barden, who founded the company in 1983. Barden leases the building to the company. He says he is negotiating with prospective buyers, but declines to name the suitors.