South Australia\u2019s former home of car manufacturing will soon become a \u201cparcel super hub\u201d for Australia Post and StarTrack.<\/p>\n
Acting deputy premier and urban development minister Nick Champion joined Pelligra Group Chairman Ross Pelligra at the site on Tuesday to mark the project milestone.<\/p>\n
Expected to open in late 2028, the $500 million project would process up to 400,000 parcels each day \u2013 double the capacity Australia Post can currently manage at its Adelaide Airport site.<\/p>\n
The 83,000 square metre site was once home to SA\u2019s Holden factory but the last car rolled off the production line in 2017 leading to significant job losses and ending 69 years of Australian-made car manufacturing.<\/p>\n
Holden\u2019s Elizabeth plant opened in 1963 and at its peak, between June 2003 and July 2005, produced 780 vehicles per day, including the VY Commodore, the Adventra, Crewman, Caprice and Statesman.<\/p>\n
Now the site\u2019s new owners say it will become the first facility worldwide to combine Australia Post and Startrack, and join the Lionsgate precinct of manufacturers in Adelaide\u2019s North.<\/p>\n
And it will be looking markedly different to the Holden days where hundreds of people worked on building cars in the plant, Australia Post\u2019s plans include high-tech autonomous vehicles and robotic pallet movers that the company said would \u201creduce manual handling and improve team member safety\u201d.<\/p>\n
Australia Post executive general manager network operations Shane Plant said the new factory would be the \u201cblueprint\u201d for how the company can use high-tech to get people their parcels sooner and upskill employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll be looking for roles that support automation and controls, mechanical and electrical and those that can work alongside robotic systems as we continue to modernise our network,\u201d Plant said.<\/p>\n
Robotic systems would help move pallets, cages and containers between the factory\u2019s loading, sorting and storage areas to speed up production.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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The new facility joins Elizabeth South\u2019s Lionsgate precinct of manufacturers, owned by Melbourne-based developer Pelligra Group.<\/p>\n
Pelligra Group Chairman Ross Pelligra said the project \u201creflects confidence in the strength of South Australia\u2019s industrial market and its growth potential\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis investment is more than a development project, it is a long-term commitment in South Australia\u2019s future,\u201d Pelligra said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy revitalising a site that once stood at the heart of the state\u2019s employment and manufacturing economy, we are helping create the next generation of industrial capability, jobs and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australia\u2019s former home of car manufacturing will soon become a \u201cparcel super hub\u201d for Australia Post and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-828347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}