# Cook Medical Australia expands Eight Mile Plains facility capacity by 70%

Cook Medical Australia is increasing manufacturing capacity at its Eight Mile Plains facility by nearly 70% by adding an afternoon production shift. The expansion will create 94 new full-time jobs, bringing total skilled technicians to 231 by end of 2018.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2018-02-20
- Where: Eight Mile Plains, Queensland, Australia
- Jobs: 94
- Starts operating: 2018
- Status: announced
- Capacity: nearly 70% increase in manufacturing capacity
- Products: endovascular stent grafts, IVF products
- Sectors: [Medical Devices](https://endata.com/sectors/medical-devices.md)

## Companies

- [Cook Medical Australia](https://endata.com/companies/30172.md)
- [Cook Group](https://endata.com/companies/28380.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [manmonthly.com.au](https://www.manmonthly.com.au/cook-medical-australia-increase-manufacturing-capacity-nearly-70-per-cent/), 2018-02-20: "In response to growing global demand for its endovascular stent grafts, Cook Medical Australia is increasing the manufacturing capacity of its Eight Mile Plains facility by nearly 70 per cent with the addition of an afternoon production shift."

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