Amid all the doom and gloom of rising unemployment figures and factory closures, one small car maker is going against the grain.
Byron group has an annual revenue of more than 50 million dollars and receives no government funding.
It produces custom-made vehicles and most ambulances used in eastern states, as well as mine site ambulances for companies like BHP and RiO Tinto.
It also makes state of the art prisoner transfer vehicles and sepcialised trucks for a number of other industries.
Bryon Group CEO, Bill Pike, says despite the bad news in most of the industry, they are thinking of expanding.
"We expect over the next two to three years that we'll increase our workforce here from 170 shop floor people by about 130 to 140, if we get the support that we're looking for from our customers," he said.
"We're diversifying from not only government sector but into the private sector. We do work for defence, we do work for ASX listed companies and we have a huge range of products."
The former Toyota executive is proud of the company's new factory in Western Sydney, which is five sites combined.
New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell who launched the new factory, welcomed the latest jobs figures for his state.
While employment fell nationally, New South Wales added more than 8 thousand jobs, with a steady jobless of 5.8 percent.
"When job losses occur, as long as the economy's strong, as long a government is creating conditions for people to invest and evolve, as this company is, other jobs are being created," Barry O'Farrell said.
"That's the future of New South Wales, it's the future of manufacturing and other employment opporutities in NSW."
But he conceeds while companies like Byron group are capable of creating hundreds of jobs, thousands will be lost in neighbouring states as Ford, Holden and Toyota move their factories off shore.
