When the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) acquired one of its most complex and expensive capital acquisitions – the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) ship build project – Australian manufacturers were posed with a challenge.

With a 21 year business history and the delivery of over 200 vessels to 36 individual countries, Austal has accumulated extensive knowledge on ways to improve sea keeping, efficiency, speed and stability.

Robert Clifford has spent four decades developing and improving the high-speed vehicle/passenger ferry industry.

The 2010 Endeavour Awards was a celebration of the manufacturing industry’s enthusiasm to take hold of an improving economic climate, and there wasn’t a company who personified this notion more than HI Fraser.

For print and communications business GEON, a trend in increased injuries across its NSW sites was unacceptable – and it was the subsequent measures undertaken which saw it take out the 2010 Safety Scheme of the Year Award.