date:Oct 24, 2013
SPC Ardmona, Australia's last remaining fruit processor says that it may be forced to close if the Abbott government refuses to come through with a $25m grant promised by the former Labor government.
The funding was meant to be sourced from a clean technology programme, which the Liberal government has since pledged to scrap as it was funded by the carbon tax, The Guardian reports.
Peter Kelly, chief executive of SPC Ardmona said that the company does not have a viable future without the grant