INDUSTRIAL SECTOR

Dalby is well established as an industrial centre for agricultural, commercial, and industrial activity. The business community is widely regarded as a leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of agricultural equipment with many manufacturers established in Dalby producing heavy-duty products.

Its close proximity to the densely populated south-east corner of the state also ensures that Dalby keeps abreast of the advances in communication and technology, whilst taking advantage of lower costs than the larger cities with low cost industrial land available.

Fully serviced industrial land, controlled by the Department of Business, Industry and Regional Development, is available only two kilometres from the Post Office, and is available for lease at attractive rates.

The town is well serviced with water, sewerage, and natural gas.

Dalby's infrastructure and stable, educated workforce make business establishment or relocation a realistic possibility. In fact, there is a promising future for investors in the district. Many opportunities are closely linked with the agricultural pursuits of the surrounding rural area. However, as a prosperous and progressive provincial centre Dalby holds opportunities for many new and diversified business pursuits.

In an ever changing, ever developing business world, the Town of Dalby is ideally situated to take advantage of the unprecedented growth that will occur in this region during the next five years.

The Council welcomes the opportunity to discuss business opportunities and have prepared a Prospectus for Industry and Business Development (PDF) for your information.

The Dalby Bio-Refinery is planning the construction of a $AUD 75 million ethanol production facility on the outskirts of Dalby. The refinery will be the first in Australia to use sorghum as the production feedstock.

When full operational capacity is reached in 2005, the plant will produce 82 million litres per annum of ethanol. Another valuable co-product of the plant is distiller’s grain with an estimated 72 thousand tonnes being produced each year and sold as animal feedstock.

The refinery will be strategically located with access to surrounding sorghum crops in the region, ready fuel markets for ethanol in the population centres of south-east Queensland and a demand for feedstock for dairy and beef feedlots and piggeries in the Darling Downs region.