Kwinana Industrial Area Perth Western Australia

Kwinana Industrial Area
the Western Trade Coast?
There are four primary industrial estates within the WTC, these being the Kwinana Industrial Area (KIA), Rockingham Industry Zone (RIZ), The Australian Marine Complex (AMC), and Latitude 32.
The WTC is protected from residential land encroachment by a buffer zone and is accepted as being the State’s premier industrial area.
Situated around the edge of the WTC are the residential suburbs of Rockingham, Kwinana and Cockburn. Of the 30,000 direct and indirect workers that attribute their employment to the WTC, 2/3 live within 15kms of their workplaces..
WTC Strategic Industrial Area (SIA)
SIAs are industrial land areas specifically set aside for companies wishing to invest in downstream processing and other heavy or strategic industrial activities.
The WTC SIA is Western Australia’s premier heavy industrial zone. It has large, connected land areas available, and is close to a skilled and productive workforce. Investment in the SIA places new entrants alongside some of the world’s largest resource companies and enables them to connect into the world-leading industrial symbiosis network.
The SIA hosts specialist centres for chemical and resource-based processing and marine engineering and ship-building. The SIA has been developed to ensure strategically important industry has access to serviced, well-buffered and appropriately zoned land within the Perth metropolitan area.
The SIA is some 6,000ha in area, with 1/3rd developed.
Land sales and leasing is managed through the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science, and Innovation (JTSI), and DevelopmentWA.
“The future of the WTC as an integrated industrial community is bright, and it can accommodate investment from incoming industries for years to come.”
Industrial Suburbs
Each of the industrial suburbs making up the WTC are quite different with some being very specialised. There are four primary areas.
The Kwinana Industrial Area (KIA)
This is the oldest part of the WTC, and was often referred to as “The Strip”. This area represents the old Kwinana Industrial Area, or heavy industry core. Its first entrant was the BP Kwinana oil refinery in 1955. It has been the home of the traditional heavy industries, including petroleum and minerals refineries, power stations, chemical plants, cement works and a range of supporting industries. It is a busy industrial deep-water bulk port and is approaching land availability capacity.
Extending from the south extremity of the KIA to its northern extremity, some 8kms, is a belt of secondary industries. These service the fabrication, construction, engineering and maintenance requirements of their heavy industry neighbours, and because land availability is approaching capacity, KIC is pressing for new heavy industrial land parcels to be developed and added to the industrial core.
Rockingham Industry Zone (RIZ)
On the fringes of the heavy industrial core is the RIZ. This is a newly developing heavy and light industrial area designed as an overflow to the KIA and for a belt of light industry through to commercial development as it gets closer to residential development. It provides space for many transport, storage and laydown areas as well as new industrial land for supporting and heavy industry.
Australian Marine Complex (AMC)
In the northern part of the WTC is the AMC, which is a specialist area for shipbuilding, marine engineering, manufacturing, fabrication, defence services, technology and general engineering.
The area alongside the wharves also serves as a marshalling area for mining resource, oil & gas, marine, logistics and defence projects.
Latitude 32
To the east, the Latitude 32 Industry Zone.
This very large (1,400+ ha) area is still largely undeveloped for industry, although a general industry precinct (Flinders) is becoming built out. The area is awaiting its planning direction which will come once the locational decision for the new port in Kwinana is made by the State government in Q1 2020.
Covering 1,400ha, when fully developed this major industrial development zone will be amongst the largest in Australia and will be constructed to meet short, medium and long-term demand for industrial land in Perth.
Industry sees Latitude 32 as the area into which the heavy industrial core can expand in to. Once the decision on the port is made, it is expected there will be substantial pressure to zone the western profile of Latitude 32 for this purpose, with the remainder set aside for the logistics industries supporting the new port in Kwinana.
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