More jobs for manufacturing will be created when SERS Sheetmetal Works expands its factory in Tasmania using a $1.7 million grant from the government’s Innovation Fund.
SERS expects 38 new factory jobs to be created, adding to a reported 6,800 new jobs created in Tasmania over the past 18 months.
Opening the improved factory on behalf of Federal Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr, Federal Member for Braddon Sid Sidebottom said the extension was supporting families in the region.
“The SERS Sheetmetal Works extension is creating high-skill, high-wage jobs in a community that has faced significant employment challenges in recent years,” Sidebottom said.
“These challenges stemmed from the closure of two Tasmanian paper mills and a vegetable processing plant. I am pleased that a significant number of the jobs created at SERS Sheetmetal Works and through the Fund have been taken up by workers affected by those closures.”
The State and Federal Governments are reportedly supporting companies in north-west Tasmania.
The new facility includes the only metal punch of its type in the state.