Manufacturing centre to be based in Canberra

By Bevan Shields
Updated July 10 2012 - 6:10pm, first published May 10 2012 - 11:11am
Eight hundred Illawarra workers have recently lost jobs at BlueScope’s Port Kembla steelworks as the company struggles to cope with tough trading conditions.
Eight hundred Illawarra workers have recently lost jobs at BlueScope’s Port Kembla steelworks as the company struggles to cope with tough trading conditions.

A $30 million manufacturing innovation centre will be based in a Canberra office block, dashing hopes it could have found a home in Wollongong.

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