David Gillespie (Lyne, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'd like to congratulate Stabilcorp. It's a local business in Wauchope in the Hastings valley. They've received $90,000 from the Manufacturing Modernisation Fund. Stabilcorp designed and manufactured the ShoulderMaster, which is a very clever bit of manufacturing in civil construction. It's designed to improve road safety by restoring the shoulders of regional roads. It does it in a mechanical fashion. Across Australia, from the west coast to the east coast and from north to south, and now in North America, this locally manufactured civil engineering equipment is exponentially increasing the productivity of road repairs. It would normally take a day to do about 500 metres of road repairs; now four kilometres can be done in day. Congratulations to Stabilcorp on their ShoulderMaster machine. Up to 65 per cent of the ShoulderMaster is made with CNC machines. This will decrease waste and increase proficiency, and it will reduce the cost to all the local councils around Australia that have to fix up their roads. Well done! It's all out of the Morrison government's Manufacturing Modernisation Fund.