Three Nominations. Three Wins.
Clean Sweep: Suncamper Wins All Three at the 2026 CCIA NSW Awards of Excellence
Suncamper Motorhomes went into the 2026 CCIA NSW Awards of Excellence as a finalist in three categories. We came home with all three.
NSW Manufacturer of the Year. Outstanding Young Achiever. Team of the Year. A clean sweep, and the proudest night in the history of this company.
We do not say that lightly. These awards are judged by the industry, against the best operators in New South Wales, by people who know exactly what goes into building a motorhome properly. To be recognised in three categories that have almost nothing in common, product and manufacturing, individual contribution, and the work of a trades team on the factory floor, says something about the whole business rather than any one corner of it. It says the product is right. It says the people are right. It says the standard is holding everywhere you look.
For a family-owned manufacturer that has been building motorhomes in the same corner of Sydney for over 45 years, being honoured like this by your own industry is about as good as it gets.
Three nominations in one year was already a first for us.
Walking out with all three is not something anybody here expected.
2026 Award Winners
NSW Manufacturer of the Year
Product innovation, manufacturing quality, and commercial achievement across the past 12 months.
Outstanding Young Achiever
Connor Jones, Head of Marketing and Commercial across the Suncamper Group.
Team of the Year
The Suncamper Cabinetry Team, the trades team at the heart of every hand-built motorhome.
NSW Manufacturer of the Year
Manufacturer of the Year is the one every builder in the state wants. It looks at product innovation, manufacturing quality, and commercial performance across the past 12 months, and it is judged on what you actually built and delivered, not on what you said you were going to do.
Every Suncamper is designed, engineered, and hand built at our Thornleigh factory, then delivered factory direct to customers around the country. No middle man, no imported shell, no shortcuts hidden behind a wall panel. That has been the way we have done it for over 45 years, and it is what this award recognises.
The past 12 months gave the judges plenty to look at. The Conqueror 3.0 launched after 18 months of development in collaboration with Ford, built exclusively for the Ranger Super Duty. The move to fully composite construction lifted build quality, reduced weight, and cut manufacturing waste across the entire range. And the largest commercial deal in the company's history was negotiated and closed, opening a channel the business had never worked in before.
This is the second time Suncamper has taken out Manufacturer of the Year in the last three years. Winning it once is a very good year. Winning it twice in three, across different ranges and a completely rebuilt product line, is the part we are most proud of. It is not a purple patch. It is a standard.
Outstanding Young Achiever
Connor Jones
Connor has won Outstanding Young Achiever, the second time he has taken out the category after being recognised in 2023.
Connor joined Suncamper in early 2022 and now leads marketing, brand, digital, and the commercial side of the business across the Suncamper Group as Head of Marketing and Commercial. Over the past 12 months he designed and built three websites from scratch, Suncamper Motorhomes, Made by Smidge, and Northside RV, every one of them developed in house with no agency involvement. He negotiated and closed the largest commercial deal in the company's history. He led the full launch campaign for the Conqueror 3.0 at the Sydney Supershow, from the first teaser through to the reveal on the floor, then carried that campaign across the east coast.
Winning a young achiever award once is a strong result. Winning it a second time, three years on and with a far larger remit, says the work has kept growing with the role.
Team of the Year
The Suncamper Cabinetry Team
Marcos, Jon, Dylan, Ray, and Mitch have won Team of the Year, and there was not a person in the factory who was surprised by it.
The cabinetry team is the heartbeat of the Thornleigh floor. In a hand-built motorhome nothing happens in isolation. Plumbing has to be roughed in before panels can close. Electrical runs need to be chased through before benchtops go down. Every other trade works around cabinetry, and cabinetry works around every other trade. When they get it right, nobody notices. When they get it wrong, everybody does.
What sets them apart is the customisation work. Suncamper does not sell off-the-shelf motorhomes. Customers personalise their build, and every one of those requests, a different storage configuration, a modified benchtop, a fixture repositioned to suit how somebody actually travels, lands with this team. They field every single one and find a way to deliver it without pulling the production schedule apart.
Over the past 12 months they took on the Conqueror 3.0 interior fit-out on top of a full standard production schedule, and neither one suffered for it. Owners consistently single out the interior finish as one of the best parts of owning a Suncamper. That does not happen by accident, and it does not happen without this group. Seeing them stand up in front of the whole industry and be recognised for it was the best moment of the night.
What it means
Awards do not build motorhomes. The people at Thornleigh do.
What a night like this does is confirm what our owners have been telling us for years. The build quality holds up. The people behind it care. A motorhome built in Australia by a team who stand behind it is worth waiting for.
We are proud, and we are genuinely honoured to be recognised alongside the calibre of operators in this industry. Thank you to the CCIA NSW and to the judging panel. Thank you to the suppliers and dealers who have backed us this year. And thank you most of all to the owners who chose a Suncamper, then told somebody else to do the same.
Now, back to work. There are motorhomes on the floor waiting to be finished.
