A pictorial history of an Australian manufacturing icon
THE last of 12 million refrigerators built at Orange’s 74-year-old Electrolux factory rolled off the assembly line on Monday.
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The Swedish-owned company announced in 2013 production at the factory would be moved offshore to Asia and Europe to cut costs in a hit to Orange and Australian manufacturing.
The factory's general manager Mark O'Kane said it could not compete with overseas-based manufacturers. The Electrolux plant - Australia's only refrigerator-making factory - has employed around 40,000 people since it opened as a small arms factory in 1942.
