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retailers and wholesalers to restock the supermarket shelves,” says Honan.
“Not only are we providing plentiful flour for Australia as we have done every year, we’re now raising the bar – providing an additional fifty million kilograms of locally-made flour. We’ve seen Australians take up baking and consequently, flour and other bakery supplies have been in high demand.”
GOING THE EXTRA
90 MILLION
Earlier in the year, Manildra announced it would expand its seven-column, grain-neutral ethanol distillery – the largest in the country – to produce an additional 90 million litres of ethyl alcohol.
Since commencing ethanol production at its distillery in 1992, Manildra has experienced some of its highest level of demand during the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses premium, GMO-free wheat as feedstock in
its fermentation process and the ethanol is distilled into a range of grades for food, spirits, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, industrial applications and transport fuel.
Honan says the investment in the distillery has created employment opportunities
operating our world-class distillery round-the-clock to increase production of pharmaceutical-grade ethanol, the active ingredient in hand sanitisers and surface disinfectants. The use of these products has skyrocketed as a result of coronavirus.”
provided thousands of litres of Stay Safe hand sanitiser for delivery to rural, remote and indigenous general practices, pharmacies, aged care homes, ambulance, police and other essential services who need it the most during the pandemic.
BAKERY BUSINESS
John Honan
“ We’ve been operating our flour mills around the clock to meet the substantial demand and since the coronavirus pandemic, we have increased our retail flour production by more than fifty per cent.”
during and after the expansion, providing more than 100 jobs during construction, as well as additional ongoing employment opportunities at Manildra Group’s ethanol plant.
“This further investment will provide a much-needed boost to the community of Nowra and the New South Wales economy,” he says. “We’ve been
Manildra has further launched its own Stay Safe sanitisers, sprays and disinfections, containing at least 70 per cent alcohol as the active ingredient, as recommended by the World Health Organisation.
Working with NSW’s
Rural and Remote Medical Services, Manildra Group has
“Our family-owned Australian business continues to locally produce ethanol needed to supply our nation’s hand sanitiser and cleaning product manufacturers, and strengthen our close working relationships with our retailers and wholesalers to produce one hundred per cent Australian flour, sugar and
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