Weiser Lock’s Staff to Move to Seal Beach

Weiser Lock, the 85-year-old residential lock maker that last year announced plans to close its headquarters and manufacturing facility here, will move its corporate staff to Seal Beach.

While the company is building a new, automated manufacturing plant in Arizona, its corporate headquarters--as well as the western regional offices of its parent company, Masco Corp.--will be on the top two floors of a new office building at the Bixby Office Park in Seal Beach, the company announced Wednesday.

Weiser announced last year that it will close its facility here by June 1990, laying off about 1,000 workers.

Masco and Weiser will pay more than $10 million for a 10-year lease on the offices. About 130 employees, both from Weiser headquarters in Huntington Beach and from Masco’s current regional offices in Long Beach, will move to the new offices in Seal Beach.

The company, hit hard in recent years by imports, decided to shut its aging Huntington Beach facility and move its manufacturing to a scaled-down facility in Arizona as a cost-cutting measure.

When making that announcement last year, Weiser officials said they intended to keep the corporate offices in Southern California but had not decided on a location.