A division of Ball Corp. that supplies the Trenton MillerCoors brewery has signed a lease for space in Monroe to open a distribution facility, said officials involved with the lease deal.

Ball Metal Beverage Container signed this month a lease for 165,000-square-feet at the Monroe Logistics Center, a development located off Ohio 63 on Logistics Way, said the commercial real estate agent that represented Ball in the deal. The length of the lease was not disclosed.

“It’s not new employment, it’s just a relocation of an existing facility to a newer facility,” said Chuck McCosh, broker and principal of Our Corporate Real Estate Department, a Springboro commercial real estate firm.

“They will probably be expanding there with other customers,” McCosh said.

Ball Corp. has a manufacturing plant elsewhere that makes aluminum cans for customers including the Trenton MillerCoors brewery in St. Clair Twp. in Butler County, he said. The company ships the cans to Butler County, and a subcontractor for Ball Metal Beverage distributes them to the local beer brewery.

The new Monroe distribution facility will be a relocation of operations from Trenton, McCosh said.

Officials with MillerCoors confirmed that Ball Corp. supplies them with aluminum cans. Officials with Broomfield, Co.-based Ball Corp. could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Ball Corp. is leasing the property from Industrial Developments International, or IDI, a national commercial real estate firm that’s been increasing its property holdings in Monroe.

Monroe Logistics Center is a development by IDI in Monroe of two buildings on approximately 86 acres. The first building is fully occupied by Hayneedle, an online home goods company, and Appleton Papers. IDI has finished construction of a second building of about 550,000-square-feet in the project, which is where Ball Corp. will go.

IDI also bought last year the business park Park North at Monroe in Warren County.

The local MillerCoors brewery is Ohio’s largest brewery, and has approximately 525 employees.