Locker Group manufacturing engineer Jason Cassar in front of the new head office in By Sarah Schwager
AN INTERNATIONAL manufacturing group has combined three of its Melbourne plants into a central plant in Dandenong South.
The company, Locker Group, said the move would improve safety, conserve energy and see the business into the future.
Locker manufacturing engineer Jason Cassar said the new 7000 square metre plant in Dandenong was designed to respond rapidly and flexibly to the demands of national and export customers.
“You not only have to achieve top efficiency now, but you also have to design for flexible manufacturing horizons 10 and 20 years out, because change is one of the few certainties in Australian industry today,” Mr Cassar said.
The new plant employs 120 people and is Australia’s largest producer of perforated and expanded metal, woven wire mesh products and wire mesh conveyor belt systems.
Locker Group was founded in 1956 and now employs 330 people internationally, with 250 employees Australiawide.
Mr Cassar said the plant had been designed to provide the best in terms of safety and conserving energy.
“From the finest to the broadest details, such as our siting along Melbourne’s southeastern corridor to slash travel times and reduce traffic congestion, we are futurefocused,” Mr Cassar said.
He said the plant’s new reticulation system was totally recyclable and less prone to internal condensation, which was an issue with previous galvanised systems.
