The City of Greater Dandenong encompasses an area of 130 square kilometres and is home to more than 8,000 companies producing a total output in excess of $9 billion.

The local manufacturing region provides employment for 70,000 people from 140 different nationalities, making the City of Greater Dandenong the most culturally diverse community in Victoria.

The region currently produces 44% of the total Victorian output of manufactured goods and is renowned as a centre for innovative manufacturing, with many companies possessing world leading technology within their specialist fields.

With more than 300 exporters, the region hosts 4 of the top 10 Victorian exporters, all of whom are SMEs who predominately export their total production into international markets.

SEMMA has created a collective, diverse, specialist manufacturing capability to enable collaborative promotion of the region’s manufacturing capabilities and tendering for local and international contracts.

Current capability of the region includes specialist products for use in the following sectors:

Agriculture            Automotive
Building                Chemical
Defense                Electronic
Food                     Health & Beauty
IT                         Machinery & Equipment
Marine                  Medical
Mining                   Petrochemical
Plastics                 Transportation