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John Mellor’s<br />
GoAuto News<br />
Fresh government aid to<br />
help parts-makers better<br />
compete on global stage<br />
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NSW/ACT 0412 687 063<br />
Mark Palmay<br />
NSW/ACT 0406 996 894<br />
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$35m parts sector boost<br />
By RON HAMMERTON<br />
EMBATTLED Australian automotive<br />
parts-makers last week received the<br />
green light to apply for slice of a $35<br />
million government assistance package<br />
designed to help local manufacturers<br />
compete against overseas suppliers<br />
and diversify into products for other<br />
industries.<br />
The announcement came last<br />
Wednesday as a delegation from the<br />
Thailand Board of Investment visited<br />
Australia to hold free seminars for<br />
parts-makers to promote manufacturing<br />
in Thailand, where labour rates are as<br />
little as $1.12 an hour.<br />
The car component industry is<br />
fi ghting for survival due to plunging<br />
sales of locally produced cars, the high<br />
Australian dollar and competition from<br />
overseas manufacturers, conditions<br />
that have contributed to the demise<br />
of two Victorian parts manufacturers<br />
– APV Automotive Components<br />
and CMI Industries – in the past two<br />
weeks, costing more than 200 workers<br />
their jobs.<br />
Funded jointly by the federal and<br />
Victorian governments, the new<br />
Automotive New Markets Initiative<br />
was foreshadowed by prime minister<br />
Julia Gillard in March as part of the<br />
$5.4 billion New Car Plan to support<br />
the automotive industry.<br />
The scheme was thrown open for<br />
public comment until June, but was<br />
last week locked in by federal industry<br />
and innovation minister Greg Combet<br />
on the eve of the annual conference of<br />
the Federation of Automotive Products<br />
Manufacturers (FAPM) in Victoria.<br />
“This demonstrates the strong<br />
commitment of our three governments<br />
to securing the long-term sustainability<br />
of automotive manufacturing in<br />
Australia,” he said in a joint media<br />
statement with industry ministers from<br />
Victoria and South Australia.<br />
“The automotive industry faces<br />
challenges as a result of the high value<br />
of the Australian dollar and changes in<br />
consumer demand.<br />
“The Automotive New Markets<br />
Initiative will help automotive<br />
component manufacturers to improve<br />
their competitiveness and break into<br />
the global supply chains which are an<br />
increasingly important feature of the<br />
car-making industry.”<br />
Aug 15, 2012 Page 20<br />
Holden production<br />
The program is split into three<br />
elements – the Automotive New Markets<br />
Program, Business Capability Support<br />
Program and Automotive Envoys and<br />
Automotive Supplier Advocate.<br />
Most of the money – $30 million over<br />
four years – will go to the new markets<br />
program, providing fi nancial assistance<br />
to automotive fi rms to diversify their<br />
business by securing new customers<br />
and developing new products.<br />
Successful applicants will need<br />
to contribute one dollar for every<br />
government dollar for their development<br />
program, with co-contribution grants<br />
ranging from $50,000 to $1 million.<br />
The Business Capability Support<br />
Program will fund a capability<br />
development organisation to help auto<br />
fi rms to “develop new capabilities,<br />
improve productivity and build on their<br />
current strengths in new ways”.<br />
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