Australasia Awards 2025

Finalists

Business Start-up Award
  • Novalith Technologies, Australia – Revolutionising Sustainable Lithium Processing with Breakthrough LiCAL™ Technology
  • SA Nano Pty Ltd, The University of Adelaide, Australia – Device for Rapid Screening of Nanomedicine Formulations
Food and Drink Award
  • Beca, Suntory Oceania, Australia – Project FOD (‘Field of Dreams’) – A Benchmark for Sustainable Australian Beverage Manufacturing
  • UNSW Sydney, Future Food Systems CRC, Australia – Engineering solutions for next-generation plant-based foods using sustainable, industry-aligned innovation
Process Safety Award
  • Excel Refrigeration, New Zealand – CO2 and Ammonia – A Retrofit for the Future
Research Project Award
  • RMIT University, Melbourne Water, KBR Engineering Consultancy, University of Melbourne, Monash University, CSIRO, Australia – Innovative Design Toolkit: Transforming High-Solids Sludge Transport for Enhanced Efficiency and Reliability
  • School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Orica Australia Ltd, Think & Act Differently (TAD) BHP, Core Resources Pty Ltd, Australia – Advancing Subsurface Leaching: An Innovative Approach to Unlocking Low-Grade Copper Resources
  • The University of Adelaide, Australia – ARC-Industry Battery Project Powering Safer, Scalable Grid Energy Storage Solutions
  • University of NSW, Australia – Transforming dominant ironmaking process to green: co-injection of hydrogen/biomass in blast furnaces
Sustainability Award
  • Beca, Suntory Oceania, Australia – Project FOD (‘Field of Dreams’) – A Benchmark for Sustainable Australian Beverage Manufacturing
  •  Excel Refrigeration, New Zealand – CO2 and Ammonia – A Retrofit for the Future
  • Novalith Technologies, Australia – Revolutionising Sustainable Lithium Processing with Breakthrough LiCAL™ Technology
  • School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Orica Australia Ltd, Think & Act Differently (TAD) BHP, Core Resources Pty Ltd, Australia – Advancing Subsurface Leaching: An Innovative Approach to Unlocking Low-Grade Copper Resources
  • UNSW Sydney, Future Food Systems CRC, Australia – Engineering solutions for next-generation plant-based foods using sustainable, industry-aligned innovation
  • Wildfire Energy, Australia – Wildfire Energy: Moving Injection Horizontal Gasification