The industrial application of microwave energy has attracted world wide interest in recent years. Research has traditionally centred on applications to domestic and industrial cooking, but it is now recognised that microwave energy has the potential to radically change the established heating and processing methods of many industries creating many unique and quantifiable benefits . [more]

Microwave research was established at Wollongong in early 1987, with the collaboration of industry and government for the purpose of investigating and developing industrial applications of microwave energy. The early work was under the directorship of Professor Howard K. Worner a distinguished Australian scientist with a background in chemistry and metallurgy and Assoc Professor Frank Paoloni an engineer with high temperature plasma experience. Since that time we have operated as a contract research and development organisation located on the campus at Wollongong. The microwave work is now combined with an engineering group with expertise in materials handling, automation and manufacturing and is called Advanced Manufacturing Technologies.