A new era for Bosch has begun in Australia with the recent opening of its new headquarters and technical centre at its 120,000 square meter Clayton campus in Victoria.
The AUD $40 million development is the single largest investment by the Bosch Group in Australia since the company established its wholly owned subsidiary in 1954.
The Victorian Minister for Industry and Minister for Energy and Resources, the Hon Lily D’Ambrosio MP inaugurated the newly redeveloped facilities. “Bosch’s commitment to this project represents a great vote of confidence in the underlying strength of Victoria’s economic fundamentals”, said Minister D’Ambrosio.
“It is a special day for us,” said Gavin Smith, Bosch President with responsibility for the region Oceania. “The new facility is evidence of Bosch’s long-term commitment to diversified activities in this region including sales and distribution, high tech engineering, advanced manufacturing and further investment into exciting new fields.”
“Australia is an important location for the Bosch Group. We have seen a positive development of our business in 2015 and we are confident of the market’s long-term prospects,” said Peter Tyroller, member of the board of management of the Bosch Group responsible for Asia Pacific.
In addition to the new headquarters, Bosch is making a significant investment in manufacturing for the global automotive sector.
The AUD $40 million development is the single largest investment by the Bosch Group in Australia since the company established its wholly owned subsidiary in 1954.
The Clayton facility will see a further AUD $6.2 million invested to increase Diodes production capacity to support growth with international customers.
The Federal Government has contributed AUD $1 million from the Automotive Diversification Programme (ADP). Bosch in Australia has a strong engineering competence and the automotive electronics engineering facility on the Clayton site is concurrently being upgraded.
This will support approximately 200 engineers predominately working on projects for international automotive customers. In addition, local partnerships have been formed with research centres including the ‘Knowledge Economy Institute’ (KEI) and proposed CRCs in digital food (Food Agility CRC) and intelligent transport systems (iMOVE CRC).
The new facility incorporates offices, workshops, testing facilities, training rooms and employee amenities. It has been developed to support the future of mobility with the installation of dedicated electric vehicle (EV) charge spots.