SPEED: Australian Textile Mills chief executive Geoff Parker and factory manager John OConnor last month welcoming the efficiency potential of newly-commissioned, Italian-made Somet looms. PHOTO: Emma HillierAUSTRALIAN Textile Mills (ATM) is seeking voluntary redundancy applications from 20 of its Wangaratta factory staff and will change some of the ways in which it makes its specialist textiles in the face of skyrocketing energy costs.
Mill management at briefings on Thursday and Friday sought expressions of interest from workers in the redundancy offer and hopes to make the cuts effective before the end of September.
The key Wangaratta manufacturing business which has operated for 70 years and is controlled by Sydney-based industr…
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