00:00We're just here today opening the Ridge Street facility after a 50 million dollar expansion,
00:05upgrading our technologies and cheese manufacturing capacities for Australian and
00:11international supply. We've been building the facility over the last 12 months as we've
00:17continued to manufacture products and in that time we've doubled the manufacturing capacity
00:21of the site. The investments enable us to have a lot more automation and
00:28technology that keeps us competitive within offshore markets to expand internationally.
00:34We employ 430 people today after our upgrade which was we added 100 new roles to support the
00:44operation of the site which has now become far more technologically advanced. We've got
00:50operators that are operating this equipment trained by external technicians and we've had
00:58trades-based roles joined to keep the facility operation. So the facility manufactures around
01:041,500 pallets of materials in and out of the site each day to produce the finished goods that
01:11consumers and customers love and it's shortly within 24 hours of the product being manufactured
01:17on site most of it is moving onto its next piece of the supply chain ready for consumption or export.
01:24A significant amount of the cheese that we process here comes from the Bega Valley and we also
01:28process cheese from other manufacturers across the country through this facility.
01:34So
01:37you
