Ingleburn—Huon’s Best Kept Secret

In Sydney’s outer suburbs you’ll find one of Huon’s best-kept secrets; our Ingleburn processing facility.

Ingleburn is the grownup, more sophisticated replacement to our old Botany Bay facility and creates value-added, MAP (modified atmosphere packaging) and frozen lines for major retailers. Gee Tung Tran, Ingleburn Production Manager, oversees everything at the site from production to dispatch, and is occasionally a tour guide for customers. “I’d like to take a moment to thank my whole team especially Jana and Thi for all of their effort and hard work.”

“Before the Botany Bay site was bought by Huon, it was a factory for Pyrmontt Seafood who I worked with for seven years. Myself and a small handful of others stayed on when Huon took over which meant a new way of doing things and changing some engrained habits,” said Gee.

–“I remember my first week at Botany when I was operating a forklift in my apron that was covered in fish with my gumboots and hairnet on. I could see Julie Gillies’ face in the office saying ‘what have we gotten ourselves into?’,” said Gee with a chuckle.

Gee said that this was a typical way that small Sydney operations ran. “I had never worked for a corporate company before so there was an adjustment period getting trained and used to the new standards.”

The move from Botany to Ingleburn has resulted in increasing the workforce from around 25 people to closer to 70 employees. It is a challenging role but Julie is a fantastic manager. I get such great support from her and I couldn’t think of anyone who I would rather report to,” said Gee.

–“We’ve had a big increase in employees in a short amount of time. I’m really pleased to see them all grow with the company and we are a very tight-knit team who work really well together.”

Ingleburn has three production rooms which is a sizable increase on the old facility. “When I saw the plans I remember thinking ‘how will we use all of that space?’, but now I’m starting to think that we need even more room!”

–Inside Ingleburn ––Team Ingleburn –

“Ingleburn has a great freezer and chiller and a dedicated space to store packaging. When we have packaging overflow our neighbours are happy to lend us some storage space. It is a shared site so we’re glad to have a good relationship with everyone.”

Due to their proximity to Huon’s major customers, Ingleburn has also seen many visitors.

“I get really good feedback from our visitors. Every single visitor has had nothing but positive things to say after seeing our site.”

“The site was designed in a way that enables site visits which is a useful educational and sales tool.”

“Our proximity to the major markets on the eastern seaboard allows us to move a lot of product through our doors which is beneficial for Huon to reach a wide and varied customer base,” finished Gee.