Samsung SDS’s new facility will service both “B2B and B2C” clients and will also function as the company’s national office, with about 120 employees based out of the facility. Yatsal Distributors, a family-run business founded more than 52 years ago, has also moved into its new warehouse and national office.

In Penrith, a newly redeveloped $300 million, 12-hectare industrial complex of eight buildings has been fully leased to a range of manufacturers operating at the site with more than 300 workers.

Such has been the demand for space in the estate, developer Aon Ari Property has acquired a further 65,000 square metres to satisfy further demand from existing and potential tenants.

The site, called Manufactor, is located at Castlereagh Road, Penrith, and was formerly the Crane Copper Tube factory.

Tenants who have leased the bespoke manufacturing spaces at the site include a Drink West brewery and bar, part-owned by Penrith Panthers player Nathan Cleary, as well as Ribs & Roast, Reo Steel and plant-based meat company Harvest B, which has a 750-square-metre food preparation plant.

Principal of Aon Ari, John Joannou, said the range of both large and small manufacturers attracted to the site was testament to the fact that “manufacturing is alive and well in Australia”.

“The broad range of large and small manufacturers have embraced the plan for their operations to be in open view to the public, as well as having a direct retail outlet to them,” Joannou said.

“We are now in negotiations to take the concept to other areas of Sydney and Australia through acquiring retired manufacturing sites.”

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