One primary employer on a growth spurt is leaving Longmont, but another will quickly take over the 60,000-square-feet space being left behind.

Creative Foam Corp., which makes the composite material that goes into wind turbine blades, is moving this summer to an 80,000-square-foot space in Berthoud.

The company has been leasing 60,000 square feet at 1800 Pike Road, which also happens to be the headquarters for Oskar Blues Brewery.

Creative Foam opened its Longmont location in 2009 to be geographically closer to its biggest customer, Vestas, which manufactures wind turbines. Just months earlier, Oskar Blues moved its brewing operations to Longmont from Lyons.

Since then, Oskar Blues has grown, swallowing up every available inch in the rest of the building.

“Our office is on one side, and then there’s (Creative Foam), and then there’s the brewery,” said Oskar Blues founder Dale Katechis. “So this is going to help out immensely in a lot of ways.”

Dave Stuck, the director of operations for Creative Foam, said, “It was obvious that between both our businesses together, collectively, we were outgrowing that building.”

Stuck said his company hopes to be in its new facility, at 2221 Clayton Place in Berthoud, by July 1. The company’s lease is up at the end of July.

Building owner Wendell Pickett said he tried but couldn’t find space in Longmont that would suit Creative Foam’s needs.

Moving to the larger facility will lower the company’s monthly lease and help the company grow “about 100 percent” in production, revenue and number of employees by the end of this year, Stuck said. Creative Foam now employs about 30.

Oskar Blues employs about 100 at its brewery in Longmont, the company reported.

Through the first quarter of 2014, revenues have grown 40 percent and production nearly 39 percent, Katechis said.

“Ten thousand of that (new square footage) will get used on August 2nd,” Katechis said. Along with dry storage, Oskar Blues will install new tanks this summer and into the fall.

Immediate plans are to use about half of the former Creative Foam space to start with, Katechis said.

“This allows us to expand more in Colorado,” Katechis said. “We don’t have to build the space in North Carolina” — where Oskar Blues opened a second brewery 16 months ago — “that we thought we would since this space is available.”

Creative Foam has been a good neighbor in the building but its moving out really does benefit both companies, Katechis said.

And what about the other 30,000 square feet of new space that Oskar Blues does not have immediate plans for?

“We miss some of the amenities we used to have before we filled it up — the batting cage, the basketball court. So I’m excited,” Katechis said.

Contact Times-Call staff writer Tony Kindelspire at 303-684-5291 or tkindelspire@times-call.com