Originally Posted by
Snoopy
I see from Appendix 1 of the Northington report that JBS Australia has 11 processing facilities in Australia. From the presentation:
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Over the past two, JBS Australia and Scott have worked together installing an automated meat processing system for its lamb plant in Bordertown and elsewhere in Australia.
1/ The production line at Bordertown is running daily, at commercial line speeds (approx. 10 head of sheep per minute or approx. 8,000 per day). [Snoopy note: looks like two eight hour shifts per day]
2/ Rather than leading to redundancies, staff have been relocated to other parts of the plant, with consequent expansion in throughput.
3/Scott’s automation equipment is also operating at JBS’s Brooklyn plant (lamb) and beef plants at Dinmore and Beef City.
This reads as though Bordertown has 'full automation' and Brooklyn (lamb) and for Beef Dinmore and 'Beef City' (Toowoomba) are partially automated.
The JBS Australia Website lists the following processing sites:
Queensland: Dinmore, Beef City (near Toowoomba), Rockhampton, Townsville
NSW: Rivernia (rural NSW)
Victoria: Brooklyn, Cobram
Tasmania: Devonport, Longford
South Australia: Bordertown
Late in 2014, JBS acquired the 'Primo' group, specialising in smallgoods and bacon. Primo has two abbatoirs. One in Port Wakefield (South Australia) , and the other at Scone in the Hunter valley (NSW)
Nine of the above facilities process beef, and one pork. However JBS also processes lamb (Brooklyn) and goats.