This year’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers list revealed

After launching our campaign in November last year, @AuManufacturing announced Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers for 2025 at an event at Crown Melbourne’s River Room on Wednesday.

Following a national search and the judgments of six experts, this title is very happy to share the list, as well as the category award winners. Please see below.

Our huge thanks to the sponsors who made this six-month adventure possible. They are Australia Wide Engineering, the Industry Capability Network, Bonfiglioli, the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, TXM Lean Solutions, and the Smartcrete CRC.

We will be releasing a report on the 50 Most Innovative — containing insights straight from the mouths of the Top 10, profiles of nominees, and analysis from judges and @AuManufacturing — later this month. It will also feature poll results from manufacturers on the effectiveness of the federal government’s innovation policies. 

Top 10 Gold Award

Micro-X

Rux Energy

Modra Technology

Advanced Navigation

Convergence Medical 

Kite Magnetics

Phibion

Electric Power Conversions Australia

Wild Tech

Allegro Energy

Top 50 Silver Award 

AICRAFT

ANCA

Arid Industrial Design

Conflux Technology

Contactile

CST Composites

Element Engineering Australia

Furnace Engineering

Gelista

GLT Trailers

HB11 Energy 

HEO

Innomerix

Instant Products Group

IntelliDesign

Iondrive

Laronix

Mapei Australia

Medsalv

MEMKO

Motium

NH Micro 

OFS

Open Welding

Optera Solutions 

Packserv Australia

Paintback

Pakko

Premcar 

Resourceful Living

SDIP Innovations

Secure Bits 

Smiths BBQs

SPEE3D

Technofast

Tekt Industries

Transmutation 

VAILO

WearOptimo

Workspace Commercial Furniture

Category winners

Collaborative R&D winner: Micro-X

Decarbonisation winner: Rux Energy

Export winner: Modra Technology

Industrial winner: Advanced Navigation

Startup winner: Convergence Medical