Australian manufacturing operates more effectively and efficiently in the global business environment as CSIRO helps industry develop smart manufacturing business systems, offering lower unit costs and better performance.
Cutting-edge wool textile technology developed by CSIRO for industrial air filtration systems has found its first lucrative commercial application in the manufacture of respirators for the personal protective equipment (PPE) market.
Car components with doubled mechanical strength, higher fatigue resistance and improved energy absorption are the result of a revolutionary CSIRO heat treatment process for high pressure die casting (HPDC) of aluminium.
This two-day workplace training program in carding technology will be tailored to the requirements of textile companies to improve process efficiencies and textile end-product.
The Light Metals Flagship is researching new technologies that will improve the cost and performance of light metal components, focussing on developing improved alloys and treatments, manufacturing processes and surface and anti-corrosion treatments.
Businesses large and small, Australian and overseas, routinely use CSIRO's fibre and textile processing facilities for small batches that require custom processing conditions.
Our highly skilled microscopy unit uses state of the art microscopes both electron and optical with imaging and analysis facilities to solve a vast range of problems.
In a world first, Mr Ken Atkinson, an Australian scientist, has spun yarns from minute fibres of carbon, without the need for a binder to hold the yarn together.
CSIRO is developing textile arm and leg sleeves for preventing skin tears in the elderly and bed-ridden. Nearly 15 per cent of people in high-care nursing homes have a skin tear at any one time, according to research at the Victorian College of Pharmacy.
Download this information sheet about Australia's pre-eminent fibre and fibrous structures knowledge centre, located at CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Geelong. (4 pages)
