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The installation of the forge has begun at Maryboroughâs $60 million munitions factory.
The Rheinmetall NIOA plant will create up to 100 direct jobs in the region as well as developing sovereign capability for the Australian Defence Force when it is completed.
Rheinmetall NIOA munitions deputy chairman Robert Nioa said the facility had been broadened to create more than just artillery shells. The Rheinmetall NIOA plant will create up to 100 direct jobs in the region as well as developing sovereign capability for the Australian Defence Force when it is completed.
âThis is what re-establishing defence industrial capability looks like in Australia,â he said.