Classic Poker Chips is relocating its plant from Gorham Industrial Park to Woodinville, Washington, in the near future. The company and its forerunners have manufactured clay poker chips in the Portland area for more than a century.

Mike Amirault, of Woodinville, purchased the company in April with the intent of moving it. He agreed to stay in Gorham until all orders received before April 27 have been fulfilled.

“We’re expecting it to take three to five more months to fulfill all of these orders,” Amirault, a native of Massachusetts with family now in Woodinville, said in an email May 29.

The company’s customers include casinos, but it also custom produces chips to order for individuals.

A company bulletin published online this spring announced the sale and listed the previous owners as David Spragg and David Sarles. It is located in a building without any company sign at 11A Gorham Industrial Parkway.

The current work force, Amirault said, has been given the option to relocate to Woodinville. “A few of them will be making the move,” he said.

He plans on taking an active role in the firm’s operation as a “hands-on owner, and I couldn’t do that with the factory 3,000 miles away.”

Despite this, he said “from a business perspective, a move like this isn’t ideal as the cost of doing business here (in Woodinville) is far more expensive than Gorham.”

He plans to be at the Gorham plant next month sometime after July 4.