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Kilcoy Global Foods to build Sunshine Coast manufacturing facility

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Kilcoy Global Foods, a Queensland meat processor, has stated an intention to build a food manufacturing facility on the Sunshine Coast by the end of 2022 in a $50 million plan. 

The new build is projected to create 300 new jobs in Caloundra’s Corbould park estate. Kilcoy Global Foods Australia president, Jiah Falcke, said the company is now finalising council approvals. 

“The world is evolving, experiences are changing, labour is contracting, food service businesses don’t have the labour,” Falcke told the ABC News. “So, we need to take extra steps to provide the food solutions where we can help them minimise their labour, minimise their waste and improve their yields.” 

The new manufacturing facility will follow the launch of Kilcoy Global Foods’ Innovation Hub in Birtinya last May, designed to provide a paddock-to-plate experience through VR. 

The executive chef, Andrew Hearnden, said he is currently working on ideas for Kilcoy’s new manufacturing facility. 

“The hospitality industry really is struggling, struggling to get staff, struggling to get ingredients. I’m passionate about that industry,” Hearnden told the ABC News. “Further cooked meat and value-added products can help chefs with consistency, labour costs, food costs and food wastage.” 

Kilcoy Global Foods CEO Dean Goode expects the Innovation Hub to attract an international clientele. 

“Rather than us going to Asia, Europe, North America trying to sell them things, we can bring people here and actually learn from them as well,” Goode told the ABC News. 

The Innovation Hub was even recently used by AUS-MEAT – funded by Meat and Livestock Australia and the Australian Meat Processor Corporation – to launch its new app, a digital version of the Handbook of Australian Meat. 

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