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As of 4 November 2026, 41,162 manufacturing & industry companies are based in Australia: 2,200 with 51+ employees, 234 hiring right now, led by food & beverage production and Dandenong.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies, confident classification
- 41,162
- 51+ employees
- 2,200 · 5%
- Hiring now
- 234 · 83 new in 30 d
- Largest segment
- Food & beverage production · 5,635
- Top city
- Dandenong · 544
- Running cold outbound
- 5
Manufacturing & industry in Australia, by segment
Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Food & beverage production | 5,635 · 35 |
| Industrial machinery manufacturing | 4,747 · 41 |
| Metal fabrication workshops | 4,650 · 29 |
| Print signage packaging production | 4,624 · 0 |
| Handmade craft makers | 3,734 · 0 |
| Furniture makers & sellers | 3,232 · 11 |
| Supplement & cosmetics manufacturing | 3,184 · 0 |
| Textiles clothing & bedding | 3,064 · 0 |
| Building products manufacturing | 3,044 · 20 |
| Consumer goods manufacturing | 2,455 · 0 |
| Chemicals & materials production | 2,410 · 18 |
| Electronics & electrical manufacturing | 2,345 · 25 |
| Windows doors & precast concrete | 2,297 · 13 |
| Plastics & rubber processing | 1,512 · 15 |
| Medical device manufacturing | 840 · 0 |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 8,368 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 24,684 · 23 |
| 11-50 employees | 5,910 · 54 |
| 51-200 employees | 1,653 · 77 |
| 201-500 employees | 340 · 44 |
| 501-1000 employees | 125 · 17 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 60 · 15 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 10 · 2 |
| 10,001+ employees | 12 · 2 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Dandenong | 544 | 1% |
| Melbourne | 523 | 1% |
| Bayswater | 311 | 1% |
| Perth | 287 | 1% |
| Campbellfield | 259 | 1% |
| Haymarket | 253 | 1% |
| Carrum Downs | 214 | 1% |
| Sydney | 197 | 0% |
| Thomastown | 189 | 0% |
| Malaga | 179 | 0% |
| Wetherill Park | 173 | 0% |
| Braeside | 157 | 0% |
The biggest manufacturing & industry companies in Australia
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41,162 manufacturing & industry companies are based in Australia: 2,200 with 51 or more employees, 234 hiring right now (83 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by food & beverage production and Dandenong. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/manufacturing_industry/australia)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
- StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
Manufacturing & industry in Australia: questions
How many manufacturing & industry companies are there in Australia?
41,162 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 2,200 of them have 51 or more employees.
How do you know a company belongs to manufacturing & industry?
We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.
Which manufacturing & industry companies in Australia are hiring?
234 have an open role on their own career site today and 83 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.
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