Congratulations to the winners of the IChemE Australasia Awards 2026

Business Start-up Award

Winner: IPMF Technologies & City of Gold Coast (Queensland), Australia - 3D-AeroDry®: World-first ambient-air vertical sludge drying technology

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

Energy Award

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

Highly commended:

• Transpower New Zealand Limited & Fonterra Co-Operative Limited, New Zealand - Ōhangai Substation – Collaboration enabling electrification at pac
• University of New South Wales & ARC Training Centre for the Global Hydrogen Economy, Australia - HySupply and SuSteel: Research and Evidence Building the Australia-Germany Green Trade Bridge
• Adelaide University, Australia: Scalable Dry-Electrode Manufacturing for High-Mass-Loading Zinc–Iodine Batteries

Note: it is unusual for there to be three highly commended entries in one category, but these entries scored so closely with our judges we felt it only fair to recognise all three.

Excellence in Knowledge Exchange and Research Award

Winner: MK Pro Products & Services & Alamcor Australia, Australia - Translating research into lithium battery fire prevention

Highly commended: RMIT University & Green Li-ion, Australia - Solvent-Free Recovery of Critical Minerals from Lithium-Ion Battery Waste

Health, Wellbeing and Food Award

Winner: BOC Limited, Australia - Innovating traditional beef trim chilling processes with liquid nitrogen

Highly commended: All Energy; Pelleton Renewables; Australian Meat Processing Corporation & JBS Australia, Australia - True Circular Economy: Renewable Energy Boiler Fuel from Within Supply Chain By-Products

Process Safety Award

Winner: Australian Gas Infrastructure Group, Australia - Process Safety in Gas Distribution

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

Sustainable Systems Award

Winner: RMIT University & Green Li-ion Australia, Australia - Solvent-Free Recovery of Critical Minerals from Lithium-Ion Battery Waste 

Highly commended: Gaiatech Limited, New Zealand - Gaiatech: Anaesthetic Gas Capture for Low-Carbon Surgery