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Medium impact industry means the use of premises for an industrial activity:

1. that is the manufacturing, producing, processing, repairing, altering, recycling, storing, distributing, transferring or treating of products; and
2. that a local planning instrument applying to the premises states is a Medium impact industry; and
3. that complies with any thresholds for the activity stated in a local planning instrument applying to the premises, including, for example, thresholds relating to the number of products manufactured or the level of emissions produced by the activity.

For example:

1. Metal foundry producing less than 10 tonnes of metal castings per annum;
2. Boiler making or engineering works producing less than 10,000 tonnes of metal product per annum;
3. Dangerous goods storage facility not including the storage of toxic gases;
4. Abrasive blasting facility using less than 10 tonnes of abrasive material per annum;
5. Enamelling workshop using less than 15,000 litres of enamel per annum;
6. Galvanising works using less than 100 tonnes of zinc per annum;
7. Anodising or electroplating workshop where tank area is less than 400 square metres;
8. Powder coating workshop using less than 500 tonnes of coating per annum;
9. Spray painting workshop (including Spray painting vehicles, plant, equipment or boats) using less than 20,000 litres of paint per annum;
10. Concrete batching and producing concrete products;
11. Scrap metal yard (not including a fragmentiser), dismantling automotive or mechanical equipment including debonding brake or clutch components;
12. Manufacturing clay or ceramic products including bricks, tiles, pipes and pottery goods, less than 200 tonnes per annum;
13. Processing, smoking, drying, curing, milling, bottling or canning food, beverages or pet food, less than 200 tonnes per annum;
14. Vegetable oil or oilseed processing in works with a design production capacity of less than 1,000 tonnes per annum;
15. Manufacturing wooden products including cabinet making, joinery and wood working, producing less than 500 tonnes per annum;
16. Manufacturing medium density fibreboard, chipboard, particle board, plywood, laminated board or wood veneer products, less than 250 tonnes per annum;
17. Sawmilling, wood chipping and kiln drying timber and logs, producing less than 500 tonnes per annum;
18. Recycling and reprocessing batteries;
19. Repairing or maintaining boats;
20. Manufacturing substrate for mushroom growing;
21. Manufacturing or processing plaster, producing less than 5,000 tonnes per annum;
22. Recycling or reprocessing tyres including retreading;
23. Printing advertising material, magazines, newspapers, packaging and stationery;
24. Manufacturing fibreglass, foam plastic, composite plastic or rigid fibre-reinforced plastic or plastic products, less than 5 tonnes per annum.
25. Manufacturing PET, PETE, polypropylene and polystyrene plastic or plastic products, less than 10,000 tonnes per annum;
26. Reconditioning metal or plastic drums;
27. Glass fibre manufacture less than 200 tonnes per annum;
28. Manufacturing glass or glass products, where not glass fibre, less than 250 tonnes per annum.