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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