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