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END OF THE LINE – IVECO TO SHUT HISTORIC LOCAL MANUFACTURING PLANT
AFTER 70 YEARS Iveco’s truck
rumoured with many industry pundits
manufacturing arm’.
assembly plant at Dandenong will
wondering how the Italian owned
cease manufacturing trucks In June next year, as another Australian vehicle manufacturing operation is set
operation could be viable given the volume for its locally built product, particularly since the demise of
Iveco currently employs approximately 120 workers in its manufacturing
to shut down. The shutdown of local Iveco truck
the Australian developed and built versions of its ACCO model.
production will leave only Volvo’s Brisbane operation and Paccar’s
However Iveco in its statement it said that as part of its ‘global
Bayswater factory in Melbourne’s East as the only remaining local
transformation process’, it will develop what it is calling a
vehicle assembly plants. The cessation of local Iveco manufacturing has long been
Customisation and Innovation Centre (CIC) along with related changes that will ‘impact its Australian
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operation along with a team of around 25 engineers involved in local research and product development, the remainder of the 250-strong workforce are involved in sales, product support and marketing functions.
Customisation operation. The Dandenong manufacturing plant was opened in 1952 under the control of International Harvester manufacturing trucks and light utility vehicles for many years, when the IH brand was the market leader in trucks. Iveco purchased
It is understood that there will be
International’s Australian operation, including the Dandenong plant from
job losses at the Dandenong facility, but Iveco is not saying how many
the ailing American company in 1992. Many parts of the historic facility
will go, although it did say some staff will transfer into the new
are now heritage listed and it is understood Iveco will continue
