Business giants go head to head at Wellcamp

TOOWOOMBA business giants Wagners and Boral Quarries are again butting heads over a planned development in the Wellcamp Business Park.

Wagners director Denis Wagner with some of the heavy machinery. Picture: Contributed

TOOWOOMBA business giants Wagners and Boral Quarries are again butting heads over a planned development in the Wellcamp Business Park.

Boral is objecting to a proposal by Wagners to build a composite fibre technology plastics factory.

The plan will be scrutinised on Thursday by councillors in the Development Assessment Panel. 

Toowoomba Regional Council received a submission arguing Boral Quarries' Wellcamp extraction pit would be adversely affected and the development would "prevent and severely constrain future extraction of an important resource within the region".

Boral Quarries operates a quarry neighbouring the project.

The extraction company last year opposed a Wagners transport and warehouse depot development on similar grounds.

It was later approved by the council.

Developer Denis Wagner said Boral's planning documents for its Reedy Creek quarry project maintained it could operate closer to residential areas than the plastics factory would be located.

The quarry's main extraction site is about 1km from the proposed factory.

It is expected that decades will pass before the factory and quarry are in proximity

Mr Wagner said workers would install machinery into the existing buildings immediately following approval.

He said the equipment would be built in-house in Toowoomba workshops, generating several jobs in Toowoomba.

Mr Wager said Wagners-developed technology was more advanced than elsewhere in the world.

Boral was contacted for comment.

Originally published as Business giants go head to head at Wellcamp