NEW equipment at a Meadowbrook factory which produces health products, supplements and “functional confectionary food”, will increase manufacturing capacity of at least one product by eight times.
“Gummies”, energy-enriched supplements, which now roll off the production line at 8000 packets a day, would increase to about 62,000 per shift, according to the company’s managing director Jeff Doidge.
The organisation was last week granted $1.5 million from the state government to help buy the new production equipment.
Mr Doidge said the technologically-advanced equipment would help the company expand.
“This will give us the scope we need to keep up with demand as we enter new markets, such as the fast-moving consumer goods sector, and to target additional export opportunities,” he said.
It also means more local jobs.
Attorney-General and Member for Waterford Shannon Fentiman said the funding announcement would be a huge boost for the local manufacturing industry.
“ATP Science will invest more than $3.2 million in advanced, new-to-Australia equipment to enable scale production of their unique and technically complex, low sugar, high-protein functional confectionery (Gummies) food,” Ms Fentiman said.
