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CAQA Apex Manufacturing, process manufacturing and production

CAQA Apex Manufacturing is a process manufacturer of construction and mineral products. The Yatala plant grinds, blends and packs dry powder products such as tile adhesives, renders, grouts, floor levelling compounds and blended cements into 20 kilogram bags and one tonne bulk bags. The Bundamba yard batches concrete and casts, finishes and cures precast elements including wall panels, culverts, pits and stair units for civil and commercial builders. The Townsville plant blends a smaller range for the North Queensland market. Customers include hardware chains, tiling and rendering contractors, precast erectors, civil contractors and water utilities across Queensland and northern New South Wales.

The business is organised into six departments across three sites. Yatala runs a continuous operation on three eight-hour shifts, five days a week, with a day shift on Saturdays for cleaning and maintenance. The blending plant has two raw material silos banks, a hammer mill, two ribbon blenders, a valve bag packer, a bulk bag station and an automated palletiser. Bundamba runs a single extended day shift with a concrete batch plant, a reinforcement bay, a casting hall with six mould lines and an outdoor curing and storage yard. Planning, Stores and Dispatch coordinates raw material intake, finished goods stock and around 40 outbound truck movements a day.