Blacktown. Wattyl paint plant at risk

One of Australia’s leading paint groups, the Wattyl Group, which has its national office, in Norwest Business Park, told The Sydney Morning Herald the company could not continue to run all three of its paint plants, in Melbourne’s Footscray, Kilburn in northern Adelaide and the largest and ageing Blacktown plant, in Sydney’s west. The paper said the likely close of Blacktown for an estimated $40 million to $50 million was money “the company does not have and is unlikely to have for a year”.