Australias largest brick manufacturer has become the latest casualty in the nations construction industry crisis, with the company forced to close down a major plant in the countrys west.
Concrete block and brick producer Brickworks revealed on Thursday its Western Australian subsidiary Austral has been running at a loss in recent years off the back of a reduction in building activity.
As a result, the company has made the difficult decision to shut down its last manufacturing centre in the state, located in Cardup about 46km southeast of Perth.
After careful deliberation, we have decided to mothball our Cardup factory to focus on the sale of excess stock, a statement released by the company read.
To reflect the scaled back operations in W…
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