MULTIVAC has been represented for 14 years in the sixth largest country in the world, and it has its headquarters in Melbourne as well as subsidiaries in Western Australia, Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales. The subsidiary in Queensland recently however reached the limits of its capacity for the fourth time.
The newly leased building complex, the Yatala Building, is ideally situated - just two kilometres from the previous location and close to the M1 motorway, which connects the Gold Coast to Brisbane. “Here we are in the heartland of Australian cattle farming and beef processing. That means for us a quick route to our most important customers,” says Andrew Hutchison, Managing Director at MULTIVAC Australia. In order to remain flexible and have the new premises available as quickly as possible, the decision was made to lease a building rather than to build completely new.
Providing an area of 1,200 m², the new location offers three times as much space as the previous complex. The offices and production workspaces are equipped to the latest standards in a uniform and attractive design. The storage capacity has been increased from 93 to 520 pallet places - space enough not only to store spare parts for packaging machines and other line modules, but also to stock a wide variety of films and other packaging materials. “A real benefit for us,” says Andrew Hutchison, “since we can now offer our customers a complete selection of materials and also provide comprehensive advice on pack design.”
The sales and logistics activity has been running at high speed since February. The physical area of operation for the subsidiary in Queensland is very widespread: “We service a huge area with a total length of around 2,000 km. In addition to this, we also serve customers in the Northern Territory, a fairly sparsely populated region of the country. But it doesn't matter, where our machines are installed and used, all our customers can rely at all times on our professional service and delivery reliability,” emphasises the Managing Director.
