Bunnings invests $75m in a changing home-build market

Michael BlebyDeputy property editor

Sep 6, 2023 – 5.03pm

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Key Points

Bunnings is investing to become a top supplier in the truss-and-frame market
Its newest asset is a Melbourne site where robots assemble and nail roof trusses
As prefab grows in home-building, Bunnings is taking share in a changing market

Bunnings is investing $75 million in plants to manufacture timber wall frames and roof trusses for houses, townhouses and low-rise apartment buildings as it seeks to make its commercial business as big as its consumer-focused retail side.

Wesfarmers-owned Bunnings has just started production at a 31,000-square-metre just-in-time plant in Truganina in Melbourne’s west that when operating at full speed will produce 2800 home lots – trusses and frames – a year.