Cannon Hill Food Factory

In 2000, Australian Country Choice (ACC) wanted to develop their newly acquired Cannon Hill site into a world’s “best practice”, vertically integrated food factory. After initial attempts to launch the project The APP Group (APP) was appointed as project manager to manage the delivery of Stages 1 and 2. We were responsible for all aspects of the project, which was delivered alongside ongoing commercial operations on the site. This included managing a significant demolition, remediation and asset disposal program.

Stage 1 of the site included a slaughter floor and stock yards with the capacity to hold and slaughter 800 cattle and 200 vealers per day, a rendering plant with the capacity to treat 10 tonne/hr of raw material and a biofilter with the capacity to treat 125,000m3 / hr of odorous air from the facility. 

Stage 2 of the project included a redevelopment of the 6000m2 Market Chiller Building to create an integrated food production facility, carton storage and connection to the Frigmobile distribution centre, and associated facilities including an administration building, amenities building, laboratory and the second covered cattle yards.

Our team successfully delivered Stage 1 on budget within an tight timeframe and Stage 2 was delivered amongst ongoing commercial operations and incorporated a revolutionary processing technology.  

APP's role in Stage 2 included management of the supply aspect of this processing innovation to seamlessly incorporate it into traditional food factory product flows and also the negotiation of a ten year licence and lease agreement for the system worth in excess of $30M in addition to the capital value of the project. This negotiation required a clear grasp of ACC's risk exposure with this revolutionary technology and the ability to convert that understanding into mitigation strategies and an equitable and workable contractual agreement. 

Our team were also involved in the masterplanning for Stage 3 of the integrated Food Factory.