Deepwater’s Trethewey Industries has taken out the Manufacturing and Engineering category in this year’s Prime Super Northern Inland Innovation Awards.
The awards, run by Regional Development Australia Northern Inland (RDANI) and sponsored by superannuation company Prime Super, were announced at a gathering at the Inverell RSM Club on Saturday night.
The Innovation of the Year award went to AgLine Distributors of Narrabri (now named Sustained Ag Global), for its patented Moisture Manager Planter.
Trethewey Industries’ citation read, “This inventive engineering firm constructs numerous products, including recycling auto balers for Woolworths Supermarkets nationally. The two most recent innovations are a dual system star picket post driver/extractor; and a hand-operated compactor for domestic wheelie bins.”
RDANI Deputy Chair Herman Beyersdorf said the awards showed how innovative and progressive Northern Inland NSW businesses, organisations and individuals are.
“Regional Development Australia Northern Inland is proud of the diversity and quality in the entries in the 2010 Prime Super Northern Inland Innovation Awards,” he said.
“We had 49 entries across the five categories.”
Other category winners were the Australian Railway Monument and Rail Journeys Museum at Werris Creek for Tourism/ Leisure services; Computer Bank New England in Uralla, Armidale and Inverell for Professional and Retail services; and The North West Advisory Group of Narrabri for Research and Education
