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Paccar celebrates Australian half century<br />
INDUSTRY AND POLITICIANS have<br />
lined up to highlight the significance<br />
of Paccar Australia’s 50 years of<br />
manufacturing in Australia.<br />
The half-century anniversary was<br />
celebrated in March when Paccar<br />
was lauded for supporting local<br />
jobs, industry productivity, and the<br />
Australian economy with truck<br />
production at its Bayswater plant in<br />
Melbourne.<br />
“Paccar built the Bayswater facility<br />
in 1971 to design, engineer and<br />
manufacture Kenworth trucks – a<br />
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg gets involved<br />
in the Kenworth production process<br />
unique and high-quality product that<br />
has become an icon of Australian<br />
trucking,” Paccar Australia managing<br />
director Andrew Hadjikakou says.<br />
As part of the celebrations, federal<br />
treasurer Josh Frydenberg, assistant<br />
treasurer Michael Sukkar, assistant<br />
minister for freight transport Scott<br />
Buchholz, assistant minister to the<br />
deputy prime minister Kevin Hogan,<br />
Australian Trucking Association (ATA)<br />
chair David Smith and ATA CEO Andrew<br />
McKellar toured the facility.<br />
“During the past 50 years, Paccar<br />
has manufactured 70,000 trucks in<br />
this plant. We are extremely proud of<br />
this achievement and honoured that<br />
the Treasurer and his colleagues have<br />
joined us to show their support for our<br />
industry,” Hadjikakou says.<br />
The celebrations saw Frydenberg hand<br />
over the keys of the 70,000th Kenworth<br />
manufactured at the plant to Brown and<br />
Hurley, a multi-generational Australianowned<br />
family dealership that celebrates<br />
75 years in business this year.<br />
“Brown and Hurley are a fourthgeneration<br />
Australian family-owned<br />
business, which started in 1946 as a ‘fixanything’<br />
mechanical repair business<br />
and service station,” Hadjikakou says.<br />
“They distribute and support Paccar<br />
products, and during their 75-year<br />
journey have grown the business to 11<br />
locations providing 460 Australian jobs.”<br />
Smith says that, in addition to<br />
supporting local jobs and communities,<br />
Paccar provides broader economic<br />
benefit by producing trucks that<br />
are designed locally for the unique<br />
conditions and demands of the<br />
Australian transport industry,<br />
moving freight in the safest and most<br />
productive way.<br />
“Paccar directly employs more than<br />
1,200 people in Australia, with many<br />
thousands more employed in its supply<br />
chain,” he adds.<br />
“Sixty per cent of the parts required<br />
to manufacture a Kenworth truck are<br />
sourced locally, employing another<br />
10,000 people.<br />
“Australian manufactured Kenworth<br />
trucks represent 20 per cent of all heavyduty<br />
trucks on our roads, and while<br />
manufacturing contributed $100 billion<br />
to Australia’s GDP in 2020, Paccar alone<br />
made up nearly 1 per cent of that total.<br />
Hadjikakou says there are many<br />
exciting projects on the horizon for<br />
Paccar, including the completion of a<br />
$40 million factory expansion and a<br />
$15 million investment in 2021 for local<br />
research and development, software<br />
integration and engineering to produce<br />
new products in the Bayswater factory.<br />
“These products will benefit our<br />
industry, community and broader<br />
economy through cleaner engines,<br />
higher levels of safety and comfort,<br />
reduced fuel usage and higher<br />
productivity,” Hadjikakou says.<br />
“Our factory expansion is set to double<br />
our manufacturing capacity and will<br />
position the organisation for the next 50<br />
years of manufacturing on this site.”<br />
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