A Dutch-based cold storage and logistics company is setting up at Truganina.
Construction has started on the $100 million NewCold automated cold storage warehouse, which will also be the company’s Asia-Pacific headquarters.
The company will employ 127 full-time staff once the warehouse, on the corner of Robinsons and Middle roads, opens.
The company will be the anchor tenant for the Agar industrial estate.
NewCold’s Oceania director Ray Perry told Star Weekly a second facility at Truganina was also on the cards, with the company recently lodging a planning application for another cold storage building on an adjoining site.
NewCold operates four other facilities worldwide: in the UK, Germany, Poland and France. The Truganina facility is due to open in the next 12 months.
“We were considering going further east, but the traffic isn’t great and we want to provide second-to-none delivery – we don’t want to be trapped in the middle of Melbourne,” Mr Perry said.
“Also, we needed the space and there’s not many places that offer that in Melbourne.
There’s an awful lot of demand in Australia for quality food storage and distribution.”
State Industry and Employment Minister Wade Noonan said the project was part of a state government plan to attract investments that create jobs across Melbourne.
