Sustainable Manufacturing

Australian manufacturing firms are being placed on a more sustainable footing by our research in eco-efficient technologies and engineering practices.

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

The development of a new, ‘eco-sustainable’ coating technology for plastics has won CSIRO and its project partner, Dulux Powder Coatings, one of Australia’s leading environmental awards – the Banksia Eco-Innovation Award.

Presented by CSIRO, Dulux and Sustainability Victoria, this seminar explores the benefits of industrial powder coated plastic components, using the new CSIRO/Dulux system that's emission free and environmentally sustainable. It also presents results from early trial applications in the automotive industry.

CSIRO and Dulux Powder Coatings developed a coating system that's emission free and environmentally sustainable and it’s won a 2008 Premier’s Sustainability Award.

Nanomaterials offer resource processors a number of advantages over conventional catalysts; the challenge is finding a way to produce these materials in commercial quantities and in a cost-effective manner.

CSIRO's instrument and machine prototyping team combines with our engineering workshop to rapidly prototype and modify instruments for a range of projects and industry needs.

CSIRO is developing membranes for desalination, purification of gases and many other commercial uses.

In this video see how waste products from steel mills, burning coal and silicon production are being used to make concrete. (2:00)

Dr Nguyen is an expert in Non-Destructive Evaluation and data interpretation techniques, using electromagnetic waves for detecting material properties or defects.

Dr Paevere has conducted full-scale destructive experiments on timber houses, providing the most detailed picture of the nonlinear structural behaviour of a light-framed building ever recorded.

Download the flyer about CSIRO's patented technology for making production-ready sheets of magnesium direct from molten metal.

SOLVE magazine provides a ‘heads up’ to business and industry of the emerging technology and science coming through the pipeline from CSIRO.