GMC CEO Jennifer Conley recently spoke with Brent Balinski for @AuManufacturing Conversations, on GMC’s 25 years of advancing manufacturing and early signs of a Geelong manufacturing renaissance.
One thousand jobs added between censuses might not sound huge, she concedes, but they’re better than a mere hunch that things are on the up.
Last decade, Geelong saw a few high-profile industrial difficulties – the closures of Alcoa’s Point Henry smelter in 2014 and the Ford engine plant in 2016 among them – but manufacturing employment actually rose between 2016 and 2021.
“It’s the first time in recent memory that we’ve seen anything like that,” Conley tells @AuManufacturing.
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