WATERTOWN, SD – Contract manufacturer OEM Worldwide said it has changed its name to Onyx EMS.

Onyx provides manufacturing of medical equipment, industrial equipment and controls, and network and telephone systems. The company anticipates further expansion in military, aerospace and smart grid markets.

Onyx is also completing an $11 million expansion and improvement project to their manufacturing and engineering facilities over the next four years. The company broke ground on a 50,000 sq. ft. expansion to their headquarters in September. The expansion will double the company’s system-build and warehousing capacity.

The firm also plans to upgrade and replace automated printed circuit board assembly equipment to increase current manufacturing capacity and prepare the company for expansion.

Last February, the company opened a Twin Cities technical sales office in Minneapolis. Onyx expects to add up to an additional 140 technically skilled jobs to its board assembly, test and high-level assembly operations.