Sports equipment maker UAB will build a new factory to assemble athletic gear for the University at Alabama and other universities.

The company is expected to begin production by the end of 2019.

UAB Athletics, a division of UAB, began manufacturing athletic equipment for the school in 2002.

The equipment company is a subsidiary of Adidas.

The Alabama-based company’s athletic equipment division has produced products for the university’s men’s basketball, football and track and field teams for nearly a decade.