A performance parts maker is set to tell a Senate inquiry that Australia is about to lose a generation of manufacturing skills when Holden closes its Adelaide plant.
KPM Motorsports founder David Roscio will give evidence to the inquiry into the future of the automotive industry.
He told the ABC that the inquiry needed to be informed of the flow-on effects of the plant shutting down.
“I’m worried about the next generation, we’re going to selling other people’s products,” he said in an interview with ABC.
“There’s going to be a whole generation, mainly in the manufacturing sector, that may miss out on the opportunities to become an engineer, a mechanic, you know a specialist machine operator, and we’re not going to be seeing these components on our own hand-built vehicles from our own backyard.
Roscio noted that component suppliers from the United States and Asia were already making their presence felt in the Aussie market, in anticipation of Holden’s closure and the rise of imported vehicles on our roads.
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