MaxiTRANS, Australia’s largest supplier of local manufactured, heavy duty road transport trailer solutions, has announced that it will be closing its trailer manufacturing facility in Carole Park, Queensland, closing two and a half years after its construction and opening.
This video shows the construction of the facility back in 2020, at a time when the demand for trailer manufacturing capacity was at a premium. Since then, the demand for trailers has remained high and the time between ordering and delivering trailers has extended.
Despite this, the company says it has made a decision to focus on centralising its trailer manufacturing business in Ballarat, located in regional Victoria.
“Since Australian Trailer Solutions Group (ATSG) purchased the MaxiTRANS trailer business in September 2021, our focus has been on setting the business up for long-term sustainability,” said Greg L’Estrange MaxiTRANS Executive Chairman. “This is to ensure that we can remain a viable Australian business to continue supporting our customers long into the future, as we have done so for over 75 years in the industry.”
ATSG is coming into its third year of ownership of MaxiTRANS, and the business is preparing for the next phase of its expansion with the company investing significantly to grow and develop the Ballarat manufacturing site.
“This investment is a demonstration of our total commitment to support local manufacturing, which will transform the trailer manufacturing industry in Australia to enable our business to continue delivering a high-quality product that continues to evolve with the changing needs of our industry,” said Greg. Adding that our expanding capability will ensure MaxiTRANS is well positioned to help our customers to continue delivering industry excellence.
MaxiTRANS officially opened the Carole Park facility in February 2021, where it primarily produced tipper products under the Lusty EMS, Hamelex White and AZMEB brands. The business is set to close manufacturing at the site by the end of March 2024, with all existing and future orders for these products to be produced at its Ballarat facility.
According to MaxiTRANS, post pandemic pressures, including continual changes in the labour market and growing costs to run the 14,300m2 Carole Park site , meant that it was no longer viable to hold two large trailer manufacturing sites for the business long term.
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