AKD

  • Trekkers reflect on challenge

    Seventeen trekkers including school students, teachers and AKD staff have returned home after completing Papua New Guinea’s iconic Kokoda trail.

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  • Surprising career change

    Trying something new has led AKD’s fleet controller Tracy Van Nierop to a career full of possibilities.

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  • Production to pause at Irrewarra sawmill

    Production will stop at AKD’s Irrewarra sawmill at the end of February and impacted staff are being transferred to the Colac site in response to a nation-wide decline in demand for timber.

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  • Endless career paths at national sawmiller

    At the Colac site of Australia’s largest softwood sawmilling business AKD, the career opportunities are “endless”.

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  • AKD team check to protect

    AKD has raised more than $350,000 with their annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month fundraising in the past five years of supporting the cause, with this year’s focus on raising awareness with the message ‘Check Yourself to Protect Yourself’.

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  • Start out a new career with AKD

    The 2024 intake for AKD’s apprenticeship program is now open.

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  • On-the-job training offers key career pathways

    More Colac and district young people are choosing a vocational pathway after finishing secondary school, a local group training organisation says.

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  • OPPORTUNITY: Low unemployment and all-level jobs on offer

    Job opportunities are at an all-time high in Colac with more than 110 jobs available in the city, as the regional Victorian unemployment rate hits the lowest rate on record.

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