Packaging

We're developing a range of new packaging materials that will mean more convenient, fresher, and better-tasting food, and a longer life for medical products.

Providing a coordinated approach to materials design, creation, characterisation and application.

CSIRO is using sound waves to defoam liquids on the production line.

CSIRO’s synthetic fibre extrusion research aims to produce fibres with new functionality for applications such as food packaging, preventing marine fouling, and optical fibres.

CSIRO and DataDot Technology Ltd collaborate to create a 50/50 joint venture — DataTraceDNA — to market a groundbreaking approach to counterfeit security protection through nanotechnology that is invisibly embedded within a product’s molecular structure.

CSIRO has developed and tested ceramic tube membranes that can used to separate oxygen from gaseous mixtures.

Light-induced damage is a significant problem for food and beverage products packaged in glass bottles. Using nanotechnology CSIRO has produced a solution, explained in this video. (1:00)

Dr Roupas focuses on researching and developing regulatory proposals for new foods and ingredients.

With over 33 years experience Dr Nafty Vanderhoek is regarded as the foremost technical expert in wet end chemistry in this region of the world.

Dried foods stored in the home can be attacked by several insect pests but simple steps can prevent or provide effective methods to control infestations.