2009 WA Industry and Export Award finalists

Alcoa

Alcoa operates the world’s largest integrated bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium smelting and rolling system in Australia. It produces almost 50% of Australia’s alumina and 30% of its aluminium. Alcoa is one of Australia’s leading exporters, contributing almost $5 billion in exports each year, and accounting for around 5% of WA’s exports.

Bay Merchants

The challenge for the Flowers family was to turn a tired and ailing country general store into a vibrant, profitable cafe and store all with a zero advertising budget.

Our strategy has been to create a memorial experience through our dedication to quality, local produce, superior customer service and innovation with a strong sense of community and the environment.

We have successfully built the Bay Merchants and the Albany brand through the design, publication and sale of 2 books and Anzac biscuits, which focus on Albany produce and social history.

Divex Asia Pacific

Divex Asia Pacific is recognised throughout the Asia Pacific region as being the reliable source for the highest quality, safest and most up-to-date underwater technology in the military and commercial sectors. With recent export contracts to supply deep saturation diving systems, and closed-circuit underwater breathing apparatus, Divex has become established as a successful Australian exporter.

Embed International

Embed is a worldwide supplier of revenue management systems for the amusement, entertainment and leisure industries. As a leader in the market, Embed delivers well rounded applications designed to manage all areas of any entertainment facility. At Embed, our focus is on enhancing site revenues through the use of cashless payment systems, value-added packages and guest loyalty programs.

GEOS Perth

Established in 1991, St Mark’s is a specialised English Language College; (ELICOS) integrating a traditional, spacious campus dating back to 1932, with the latest educational methods and technology. With students from 25 different countries, the College is committed to ensuring that each student has a wonderful cultural and academic experience.

Grain Pool

Grain Pool is a specialist marketing organisation with a reputation for supplying premium Australian quality grain to the world’s major markets.

Grain Pool exports a range of grains from Australia to more than 20 export destinations around the globe, with the majority of grain shipped from Western Australia.

IDC Technologies

IDC Technologies provides practical engineering and technology training, education and publishing for Engineers and Technicians throughout the world. IDC’s 12 offices worldwide are backed by an enthusiastic team of professional engineers, technicians and support staff. The head office is in Perth.

In the last 16 years IDC has trained over 300,000 engineers, scientists and technicians. IDC’s instructors and engineers are highly respected in their fields of expertise.

Matrix Composites and Engineering

Matrix Composites and Engineering Limited (MC&E Limited) is a Perth based unlisted public company, established by the Begley family, comprising of three operating subsidiaries - MC&E, Begley International and Torque Engineering. These companies supply a range of sub-sea and offshore equipment and services including sub-sea buoyancy, elastomer products, pipeline and riser ancillaries, drilling equipment, well construction equipment and offshore installation equipment.

MetroCount

With clients in over 85 countries and headquarters in Fremantle, MetroCount is the world leader in traffic monitoring equipment and software.

MetroCount’s very popular vehicle counters and classifiers, combined with its sophisticated software, give traffic and municipal engineers unmatched versatility with invaluable road statistics for all road projects.

MiaKat Press

MiaKat Press was established in late 2008 to publish and distribute the world's first food allergy storybook for children under three. The product is now sold via two of the leading anaphylaxis organisations in the world, Anaphylaxis Australia and The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network in America.

Micromine

With a client on every continent and 70% of sales derived from overseas markets, Micromine is the leader in providing innovative software solutions and services to the mining and exploration industry.
Established in WA in 1986, Micromine’s solutions manage and monitor every step in the mining life cycle.

MineARC

MineARC Systems is the world’s leading supplier of safe-refuge solutions to the underground mining and tunnelling industries. A refuge is a high-tech ‘safe-haven’ that underground personnel can turn to in the event that an area has suddenly become unsafe or hazardous. MineARC supplies to over 100 operations in over 25 countries.

Panoramic Resources

Panoramic Resources Limited is an established Western Australian based nickel sulphide producer with two 100% owned underground mines, the Savannah Project in the Kimberley, and the Lanfranchi Project, 42kms south of Kambalda.
Panoramic is continuing to assess opportunities to grow the Company through exploration, the acquisition of projects and/or companies that would be complementary to its existing business, and which can benefit from the Company’s commodity expertise, management, financial and technical capabilities and risk profile.

Peak Well Services

Peak is an international company with a reputation for innovation and excellence in the design and manufacture of Down Hole products for the Oil and Gas Industry.
Our extensive range of Well intervention tools, innovative solutions and operational product support has positioned us as leaders in our field.

Silver Trowel Trade Training

Silver Trowel Trade Training provides high quality educational opportunities and services which promote individual development in a multicultural community. The College values its role as an educational leader, embracing change and responding to the complex needs of those it serves. Silver Trowel is committed to equity, teaching excellence, lifelong learning, partnership building and economic development.

Silverise

Silverise Pty. Ltd. acquired the business in 2000 and built it to become the largest Raise Bore drilling consumable manufacturer in the Southern Hemisphere and one of two largest consumable manufacturers globally.

Utilising innovative technology, the export market has rewarded Silverise with exponential growth in sales, with exports in 2007-2998 roughly 1,132% more than in 2006-2007.

Smart Burn

Smart Burn Pty Ltd has demonstrated sustainable environmental leadership by inventing the “unique” SmartBurn device that improves combustion efficiency in wood heaters, enabling the fire to burn up to 17% hotter and reducing smoke emissions by up to 50%.

This exciting technology has prevented an estimated 904 tonnes of smoke emissions from entering the atmosphere.

Snowden Group

Snowden is uncompromising in the delivery of the highest quality technology solutions to the mining and related industries. Over the last 22 years, Snowden has developed a proven track record for service excellence and innovation working on projects in over 40 countries across the world.

Solahart

Solahart has been manufacturing solar hot water systems for domestic and commercial applications in Australia since 1953. Solahart has sold more than one million units in over 100 countries around the world, and is the market leading brand in Australia. Solahart manufactures a complete range of roof mounted solar systems, split systems and heat pumps.

STEPS Professional Development

A home grown educational publishing company, described as a virtual mouse competing against elephants, has defied the odds to win contracts to teach teachers in education systems in Ireland, Malaysia and Rhode Island.

Last year STEPS Professional Development reported a 93% jump in profit, with over half of its sales generated offshore.

The Perth Mint

During the lat 23 years of its illustrious 110-year history, The Perth Mint has operated in the highly competitive commercial sector of the global precious metals, numismatic and investment industries.

Dedicated to adding value to Australia’s precious metals before export and generating consumer interest in, and demand for, precious metals worldwide, The Perth Mint continues to meet with unprecedented success.

The Wine and Truffle Company

The Wine & Truffle Co (WTC) began cultivating truffles in Western Australia in 1997 at Manjimup WA. Over13,000 trees were planted making this the largest mainland truffiere in Australia.

The first truffle was harvested in 2003, WTC produced in 2005 the largest truffle ever found outside of France - a one-kilogram truffle. WTC truffles are destined for restaurants across Australia and 14 International markets.

WAFEX

Established in 1991, WAFEX is Australia’s leading exporter of fresh and dried flowers and foliage as well as having a very strong presence and distribution capacity in the Australian wholesale flower market.

WAFEX key export markets include Japan, USA, Holland, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, Germany and Switzerland. WAFEX is also currently investing in new market development in India, Russia and United Kingdom.

Wescobee

The Wescobee honey company has been in operation since 1926 and is exclusively owned by Western Australian beekeepers. With over 83 years in the industry, the company continues the long tradition established by its founders, in ensuring a quality honey product is maintained from the point of production to the end consumer. Wescobee has a renowned reputation for marketing a genuine pure and natural honey in over twenty-one countries around the world and is the second major honey exporter of consumer packaged honey from Australia.