Backing Ballarat’s advanced manufacturing
We’ve helped to upgrade 2 advanced manufacturing sites in Ballarat, supporting regional workers, businesses and customers – while strengthening the city’s position as a regional jobs hub.
At the first site, funding has helped to create a new factory for JG King Building Group. This has brought the company’s home building and window and door production arms under one roof. This will establish a more efficient production line and create 15 jobs for local workers.
The factory has resulted in $6 million in direct capital investment into Ballarat. It features solar powered and cutting-edge manufacturing software on an assembly line that will mass-produce energy efficient doors and windows for residential builds.
Built using double glazing, these doors and windows will help new and existing homes to become:
- more energy smart
- more comfortable to live in
- cheaper for residents
This is all while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Over at the second site, at CE Bartlett’s Wendouree factory, a three-phase factory expansion has created more floorspace in the general assembly and water tank liner areas. This has also funded the purchase of advanced sewing machinery.
These upgrades have supported the creation of 22 local jobs and will help the company to produce a broader range of advanced textile goods for clients across:
- agriculture
- viticulture
- transport
- blinds
- defence.
The new facilities, machinery and staff will also help the company to meet the growing demand for advanced textile goods in other sectors. It will include camping and outdoor recreation, which are seeing an uptick in demand for trailer manufacturing.
Our support for these companies forms part of our record investment of $47 billion in just over a decade. These projects are making our regional cities and towns even better places to live, work, stay, experience, invest and study.
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