A high-end gun manufacturer will invest $2.9 million into its Bessemer facility.

The expansion will lead to Steyr Arms adding up to 10 jobs. The Bessemer facility is the only U.S. subsidiary of the Austrian-based company that imports, distributes and assembles Steyr firearms.

Steyr plans to relocate manufacturing of products it sells in the U.S. from Austria to Bessemer.

Steyr will buy new equipment to process components used in gun production and final assembly. The project is scheduled to be fully completed by June 2019, but it should be manufacturing on the site by the end of 2017.

In 2013, Steyr invested $1.7 million when it moved its local operations from Trussville to Bessemer. It since doubled its local workforce, currently employment 15 people in Bessemer.

"Steyr Arms' decision to add a manufacturing component to its operation in Bessemer shows that Alabama provides an ideal environment for firearms makers, along with many other manufacturing businesses," Alabama Department of Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield said in a press release. "In addition, every time a company expands in Alabama, it transmits a vote of confidence to the world that the state is a place where success can be found."