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Wollongong companies offer a wide range of capabilities to the Defence industry, including:
Wollongong is around one hour from Sydney and its airports, and two and a half hours from Canberra.
There are direct flights from the local regional airport to both Melbourne and Brisbane.
The city’s industrial precincts, centred around Port Kembla, are just minutes from Wollongong CBD.
The newly established national product processing and solutions facility known as The Hub helps customers deliver significant Defence projects across Australia. The Hub delivers world class plate processing, including plasma cutting, straight and complex bevelling, drilling and tapping.
Learn moreThe Illawarra Innovative Industry Network, known as i3net, promotes the collective capability of Wollongong’s manufacturing and industrial sector. i3net members span the depth of local engineering and manufacturing industry, including companies that provide technology and services to the defence industry.
Learn moreDMTC provides defence industry with solutions for enhancing Australia’s defence manufacturing capability. It conducts the latest research in the fabrication of land and marine platforms through its multi-partner research programs and has a node based at the University of Wollongong.
Learn moreBuilding on Wollongong’s rich history of steel manufacturing and industry, the Steel Research Hub draws on the combined capabilities of the University of Wollongong and partners in the steel industry to create competitive processing
methodologies.
Businesses in the Wollongong region providing a range of specialisations to the Defence sector include:
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