THERE is bad news for Albury’s manufacturing sector with the proposed closure by Kimberly-Clark Australia of its Albury nonwoven fabrics mill and the loss of 44 jobs.
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The plant, which opened in 1987, will close in the second half of next year as a result of the increasingly high cost of manufacturing and the small scale of its operations.
Employees had been aware the mill had been struggling for some time to be competitive but would still be shocked by the company’s announcement.
It seems that job losses have become increasingly prevalent in recent years, with redundancies not only confined to the manufacturing sector, nor to the Border and North East.
But with the closure of Kimberly-Clark in Albury in the latter half of next year, there will be another 44 people seeking new employment and another local manufacturing site up for sale.
While employees will be paid their entitlements and are likely to have more than six months’ notice, there must be concern about this trend.
We have a Victorian election next month and a NSW poll due in March next year and governments need to be thinking more about job creation.
