Bread is on the bake again at Tullamarine after a $21 million upgrade to the Allied Mill Bakery.
The Tullamarine Park Drive manufacturer ceased operating for six months while the company spent millions of dollars installing new machinery and technology.
Mill Park MP and Minister for Industry Lily D’Ambrosio was on site last Thursday to officially reopen the bakery manufacturing plant.
Allied Mills is one of Australia’s largest suppliers of flour and bakery pre-mixes
to hot-bread shops, supermarkets and wholesalers. It owns seven flourmills, four frozen bakeries and four mixing plants.
The Tullamarine plant employs
about 200 people, while the company employs more than 900 people in Australia and New Zealand, processing 800,000 tonnes of wheat and other grains each year.
The Tullamarine bakery was purchased from Potts Bakeries three years ago.
Ms D’Ambrosio said the state government had provided a $25 million grant to support capital investment.
“Food and fibre is one of six key growth sectors in our Back to Work Plan, which we will invest in to help create 100,000 jobs,” she said.
“By working with companies like Allied Mills, we’re securing economic growth now and into the future.”
Lexi Cottee
