Manufacturing

Authors Pablo Juliano, Rohan Nelson and Ingrid Appelqvist

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Key points

  • The gross value of production from Australia’s food manufacturing sector was $125 billion in 2023, and the sector employed over 200,000 people.
  • Australia’s food manufacturing industries face challenges from high input costs and shortages of skilled labour.
  • New business models and food processing technologies have potential to make regional food processing economically viable by upskilling labour and reducing start-up costs.
  • Improved reporting on the development of innovation hubs would help businesses to scale up and extend into new regions.

Citation
Juliano P, Nelson R and Appelqvist I (2025) Insight 10: Manufacturing. In: Nelson R, Lim-Camacho L and Robinson C (eds) Towards a state of the food system report for Australia. CSIRO, Australia.