Finalists announced for 2022 Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards

A list of finalists has been published for the annual Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards, which has been running since 2001.

Announced on Wednesday, the finalists are:

• Amaero Additive Manufacturing (Notting Hill)
• Australian Defence Apparel (East Bendigo)
• Care Essentials (North Geelong)
• Coolon (Hallam)
• Dual Chelate Fertilizer (Robinvale)
• Duratray International (Bayswater)
• Elastomers Australia (Airport West)
• Essential Flavours (Carrum Downs)
• Foodmach (Echuca)
• Integra Systems (Broadmeadows)
• Interpack (Deer Park)
• Invetech (Mount Waverley)
• Leica Biosystems (Mount Waverley)
• Luv-a-Duck (Nhill, Ballarat)
• NCI Packaging (Tullamarine)
• Nissan Casting Australia (Dandenong)
• Ojas Infrastructure (Braeside, Kilmany, Keysborough)
• Osteon Medical (Mulgrave)
• Planet Innovation (Box Hill)
• Repurpose It (Epping)
• RUAG Australia (Bayswater, Airport West)
• SPEE3D (Dandenong)
• Starward (Port Melbourne)
• Thread Group Australia (Moorabbin)

The awards program includes three new categories this year:

• Leader in low carbon economy;
• Outstanding responsiveness to COVID-19; and 
• Leader in diversity and inclusion.

Category winners will be announced at a gala dinner to be held on July 26 at the Palladium at Crown.

The awards are being held for the first time since 2019, with recent years interrupted by Covid-19.

Picture: Winners from the 2018 awards (image credit AMTIL)

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