Australasia Awards 2026

Finalists

Business Start-up Award

  • Birra Technologies, Australia - Shipping Without the Green Premium:  Methanol from Waste Biogas

  • IPMF Technologies, Australia - 3D-AeroDry®: World-first ambient-air vertical sludge drying

  • Nurox Hydrothermal, New Zealand - Transforming Hazardous Medical Waste Treatment
  • SA Nano, Australia - Device for Rapid Screening of Nanomedicine Formulations

Energy Award

  • Adelaide University, Australia - Scalable Dry-Electrode Manufacturing for High-Mass-Loading Zinc–Iodine Batteries

  • Coregas, New Zealand - A Circular Manufacturing Model for Zero-Discharge Acetylene Production and Byproduct Recovery

  • Fonterra; Transpower, New Zealand - Ōhangai Substation – Collaboration enabling electrification at pace

  • University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia - HySupply and SuSteel: Research and Evidence Building

Excellence in Knowledge Exchange and Research Award

  • Adelaide University, Australia - NEXMIN - Next-generation Molecular Intelligence for Minerals
  • MK Pro Products and Services, Australia - Translating research into lithium battery fire prevention

  • RMIT University, Australia - Solvent-Free Recovery of Critical Minerals from Lithium-Ion Battery Waste

Health, Wellbeing and Food Award

  • All Energy;  Australian Meat Processing Corporation (AMPC); JBS Australia; Pelleton Renewables, Australia - True Circular Economy: Renewable Energy Boiler Fuel from Within Supply Chain By-Products

  • BOC, Australia - Innovating traditional beef trim chilling processes with liquid nitrogen

  • UNSW Sydney, Australia - Engineering sustainable plant-based food systems

Process Safety Award

  • Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG), Australia - Process Safety in Gas Distribution
  • Kemira Oyj, Australia - Kemira Hallam Life Saving Rules: Transforming Process Safety through Critical Control Assurance

  • Origin Energy, Australia - Improving Management of Change: the power of industry collaboration

Sustainable Systems Award

  • All Energy;  Australian Meat Processing Corporation (AMPC); JBS Australia; Pelleton Renewables, Australia - True Circular Economy: Renewable Energy Boiler Fuel from Within Supply Chain By-Products

  • Gaiatech, New Zealand - Anaesthetic Gas Capture for Low-Carbon Surgery

  • RMIT University, Australia - Solvent-Free Recovery of Critical Minerals from Lithium-Ion Battery Waste