Celebrating the individuals, organisations and governments driving the Asia-Pacific
toward net-zero emissions, a circular economy, and truly sustainable industrial manufacturing.
Now in its third year, the SIM-PAC Live Sustainability Awards honour the groundbreaking efforts of changemakers
across the Asia-Pacific region — from decarbonisation and resource recovery, to sustainable food production,
battery innovation, and the circular economy. These are the projects paving the way for a sustainable industrial future.
20
Categories
Covering the full industrial supply chain — from energy to packaging
60+
Finalists in 2025
Industry leaders recognised across the Asia-Pacific region
APAC
Region
Open to individuals, companies, and government bodies region-wide
Awarded Across 20 Categories
The full spectrum of sustainable industry
From breakthrough technologies to systemic collaboration, each category celebrates
a different facet of the journey toward net-zero and circularity.
Category Awards
01
Digital Decarbonisation Technologies
Recognising outstanding digital technologies that enable emissions reduction, efficiency gains, and decarbonisation.
The judges will be looking for solutions where digital intelligence — data, software, sensors, AI, or automation — is the primary driver of the sustainability outcome. Entrants may come from any sector, and the technology does not need to be unique to industry — what matters is that it is being applied to industrial decarbonisation in a novel, effective, and scalable way.
02
Lifecycle Design
Recognising outstanding design that considers the full environmental impact of a product or system from conception through to end of life.
The judges will be looking for design thinking that goes beyond compliance — solutions that deliberately reduce embodied carbon, enable disassembly, design out waste, or build regenerative value into the product from the outset. Both physical products and designed systems are eligible.
03
Low Emissions Mobility
Recognising outstanding innovation in the decarbonisation of transport, freight, logistics and mobility across all modes.
The judges will be looking for solutions that move people or goods with significantly lower emissions — whether through electrification, fuel switching, route optimisation, fleet transformation, or infrastructure innovation. The scale of deployment matters, but so does the quality of the thinking behind it.
04
Resource Recovery and Circular Economy
Recognising outstanding efforts to recover, reuse and reintegrate waste materials and resources back into productive use.
The judges will be looking for organisations that are proving circularity is operational and economically viable — not theoretical. Strong entries demonstrate a genuine closed loop: materials that would otherwise be lost or landfilled are being transformed into new, valuable industrial inputs.
05
Process and Systems Innovation
Recognising organisations that have fundamentally rethought how a process or system works to deliver superior outcomes in energy efficiency, decarbonisation and sustainability.
The judges will be looking for innovation that goes beyond incremental improvement: a process redesigned from first principles, a system reconfigured to eliminate waste or fossil fuel dependency, or an operational approach that others in the sector should now be studying and replicating.
06
Biological Materials and Processes
Recognising the use of biological materials and approaches to solving environmental and sustainability challenges, from construction materials to natural remediation systems.
The judges will be looking for entrants who are applying biological systems and materials to solve industrial and environmental challenges: materials derived from plants, fungi, algae, or other organisms; processes that use biology to remediate, filter, or transform; and solutions that replace fossil-derived or high-carbon alternatives with nature-derived ones.
07
Managing Natural Resources
Recognising outstanding stewardship of water, land, primary industries and natural ecosystems.
The judges will be looking for organisations that are managing natural resources more responsibly — reducing water use, improving land management, minimising the environmental footprint of extraction or agriculture, or restoring ecosystems as part of their operating model.
08
Sustainable Food Production
Recognising outstanding decarbonisation and sustainability innovation in food manufacturing, production systems and associated packaging.
The judges will be looking for industrial-scale food producers who have made bold moves — electrifying processes, switching to renewables, redesigning production lines, or rethinking packaging — and can demonstrate measurable emissions or resource savings as a result. This is not a category for farming or primary agriculture; it is about what happens in the factory, the processing plant, the cold chain, and the distribution centre.
09
Electrification in Action
Recognising organisations that have demonstrated innovation in moving away from fossil fuel-based processes toward electrification.
The judges will be looking for real-world transitions — companies that have actually made the switch, not just planned it. Strong entries tend to involve electrification that was considered difficult or commercially questionable, where the organisation found a way to make it work.
10
Renewable Energy and Storage — Development
Recognising outstanding advancement of renewable energy generation and storage technologies, including novel applications, innovation and improvement of existing solutions.
The judges will be looking for organisations developing the technology itself: new chemistries, new storage formats, new generation approaches, or existing technologies being meaningfully adapted for Australian conditions or hard-to-reach applications. This is a category about pushing what is technically possible.
11
Renewable Energy and Storage — Deployment
Recognising outstanding implementation of renewable energy and storage solutions, demonstrating commercial viability and significant emissions impact.
The judges will be looking for organisations that are deploying clean energy at meaningful scale — in commercial, industrial, or community settings where renewables demonstrate what is possible for others to follow. The quality of the business model and the scale of the impact both matter.
12
Low-Carbon Materials
Recognising innovations that significantly reduce the embodied carbon of materials through improved manufacturing, substitution or design.
The judges will be looking for organisations working on the materials that industry and construction rely on — concrete, steel, aluminium, plastics, glass — and finding ways to make them with substantially less carbon. It is not just about replacing materials; it is also about making the materials we will continue to use far less carbon-intensive.
13
Market Adoption and Acceptance
Recognising organisations that have successfully driven market, industry, or consumer adoption of sustainable solutions — including through marketing, communications, and commercial strategy.
The judges will be looking for organisations that have done the hard work of driving real-world adoption — overcoming resistance, reframing the value proposition, and making sustainable choices accepted in the market. Strong entries demonstrate measurable behaviour change at scale: new procurement standards adopted, new products normalised, or entire industry segments moved toward lower-carbon alternatives.
Special Awards
14
Collaboration Award
Recognising the synergistic outcomes achieved when two or more organisations work together on a single sustainability project or initiative.
The judges will be looking for genuine partnership: shared risk, shared resources, and shared outcomes. The quality of the collaboration model matters as much as the result — strong entries demonstrate how the partnership was structured, what each party contributed, and why this approach delivered more than a single-organisation project could have.
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Innovation Award
Recognising outstanding innovation in sustainable industrial manufacturing that challenges conventional thinking and delivers measurable sustainability outcomes.
The judges will be looking for original ideas brilliantly executed — innovations that shift how an industry thinks, operates, or builds. The judges may also consider entries from any category for this award.
16
Breakthrough Solution
Recognising the most promising solution or technology for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors.
The judges will be looking for solutions that are ready for commercialisation, or clearly on a pathway toward it, and that address a problem widely considered unsolved or too difficult to address, or that open a fundamentally new pathway where none previously existed.
17
Most Promising Future Technology
Recognising the most compelling early-stage technology with genuine potential to transform industrial sustainability.
The judges will be looking for deep-tech ideas that are scientifically credible, industrially relevant, and ambitious in their implications. This is not an award for finished products; it is an award for the ideas that will reshape industries over the next decade, at the moment when they need recognition and support most.
18
Global Impact Award
Recognising the most outstanding achievement in reducing emissions, waste or pollutants at a scale that delivers meaningful global impact.
The judges will be looking for organisations whose work extends beyond their immediate market: technologies being exported, frameworks being adopted internationally, or supply chain improvements that affect emissions across multiple countries. Impact at scale, and the reach of that impact, are the primary criteria.
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Outstanding ESG/SDG/Zero Carbon Strategy
Recognising the role that bold strategy, planning and governance play in driving meaningful decarbonisation and circularity outcomes.
The judges will be looking for strategies that are genuinely executable — not aspirational documents, but frameworks that turn ambition into bankable, measurable, and lasting change. Strong entries demonstrate how the strategy was developed, how it is being implemented, and what results it has already produced or credibly enables.
Supreme Award
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Supreme Winner
For outstanding overall contribution to Sustainable Industrial Manufacturing — awarded to the entrant that best exemplifies excellence, innovation and real-world impact across the awards.
The Supreme Winner is selected from the winners of the Category Awards and Special Awards. The judges will be looking for the organisation that has not only won their category outright, but whose achievement has the greatest potential to inspire others, reshape their sector, and accelerate Australia’s transition toward net-zero and a circular economy.
How to Enter
Tell us your story. Include your clients.
Entries are open now and close 18 October 2026.
Submissions can cover projects that are ongoing, or commenced or completed in the 2025 and 2026 calendar years.
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An independent panel of leaders in decarbonisation, circular economy, and sustainable industrial strategy. The 2026 judging panel will be announced shortly.
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Joanna Kay
The Superpower Institute
Program Director – International Strategy, Partnerships and Engagement. Advisory Board Member at the Institute of Sustainability, Energy and Resources, University of Adelaide, and the National Hydrogen Strategy, Australian Government.
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Dr Mayuri Wijayasundara
CEO, Avanvarta
Nearly 20 years' experience in circular economy. Former Circular Economy Expert at UN Habitat. PhD from the University of Melbourne and chartered management accountant of CIMA, UK.
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Geoff Matthews
Founder, SIM-PAC Live
Founder of the SIM-PAC Live Sustainability Awards, Event Director and Host of the SIM-PAC Live Broadcast Show. Former Advisory Board Member, Future Aluminium Forum (2019–2022).
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2026 Finalists
The projects shortlisted
Finalists will be announced in the weeks leading up to the ceremony.
Below are the 2025 finalists to showcase the calibre of past entries.
Collaboration Award
Capral Aluminium
In partnership with Rio Tinto and Sims Metal, established a closed-loop aluminium recycling system that remelts recovered scrap into new extrusion billet — reducing energy use, carbon emissions, and reliance on virgin material.
A landmark 951 kW rooftop solar system paired with a 1,165 kWh battery at IKEA's Marsden Park Distribution Centre — setting a new benchmark for renewable energy integration in retail logistics.
Leader in landfill biogas-to-energy innovation with more than 26 operational sites across Australia, turning methane emissions into dispatchable renewable power and verified carbon credits.
Pioneering the electrification of regional aviation with retrofit battery-electric and hydrogen-electric planes, including the breakthrough DovePack battery with immersion cooling.
PostPrime® Plastic Pellets and 50–65mm Concrete Bar Chairs exemplify lifecycle design — 50–52% lower carbon emissions per unit compared to virgin plastic, with full recyclability.
Australia's only solar panel manufacturer. Scaling from 20 MW to 180 MW annually with $34.5M in federal funding, plus a five-year A$8.4M export agreement to Vietnam.
