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Construction of the Rheinmetall Nioa Munitions factory in Maryborough West is almost complete.
During a tour of the factory on Tuesday Co-Chair of Rheinmetall Nioa Munitions Robert Nioa said the building would be ready within four weeks.
The fitting out of equipment will then begin.
“Currently installed, at the heart of this factory is a 1.3 kiloton press, a very tall piece of equipment which forges a hot piece of steel into an artillery shell … on the assembly line there’s heat treatment, post forging processes and then we get into machining,” Mr Nioa said The shell forge at the Rheinmetall Nioa Munitions factory in Maryborough. Photo: Stuart Fast
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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.
Jobs, manufacturing and the defence industry were on Prime Minister Scott Morrison s agenda when he visited Maryborough today. Mr Morrison visited the Rheinmetall Nioa munitions factory construction site and Global Manufacturing Group while in the heritage city. We re making things in Australia, we re making things in Queensland and we re making things in Maryborough and we re making jobs. MARYBOROUGH VISIT: (L) Global Manufacturing Group Director of Business Development, Phil Dowling, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and MP Llew O Brien. Mr Dowling presented the Prime Minister with a laser cut name plate bearing, ScoMo. Defence manufacturing is one of Australia s priorities, we re really, really good at it, you can see it all over the country … we get it done on the ground, that s why it s a priority.