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COVID response

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Our work in the fight against COVID

We’re testing the performance of advanced materials produced by local manufacturers to boost the supply of medical equipment needed in Australia’s fight against COVID-19.

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Our facilities

Medtech to market

CSIRO's Biomedical Materials Translational Facility (BMTF) helps MedTech companies turn new discoveries into biomedical products.

FloWorks

Want to produce chemicals quicker, cheaper, safer, and more efficiently? Learn more about FloWorks, our cutting edge Centre for Industrial Flow Chemistry.

Materials characterisation

Our Materials Characterisation Program boasts analytical and characterisation expertise in areas from spectroscopy and chromatography to microscopy and X-ray science, and has stewardship of over $30m of state-of-the-art instrumentation.

RAFT: making better polymers

Our RAFT technology is a process for making better polymers with enhanced properties for a uses across areas such as health, electronics, packaging and agriculture.

Lindfield collaboration hub

Lindfield Collaboration Hub is an innovation incubator. A dedicated space for start-ups and SMEs to develop unique, high-tech products and devices.

Mask Testing Facility

We've opened Australia’s first accredited single-use surgical face mask testing facility. The facility enables manufacturers to test their products to Australian and international standards in Australia and supply healthcare workers with this vital piece of protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, and beyond.

Mixed Reality Lab

The Mixed Reality Lab at CSIRO’s Data61 will enable manufacturing and other industries to create ‘Digital Twins’, or virtual replicas of physical objects and systems.

3D printing

The world's first 3D printed jet engine.

Our Lab 22 additive manufacturing facility has created components for 3D-printed jet engines that can be produced in days instead of months.

Optimisation project spotlight

COVID-19 face masks

We tested the performance of advanced materials produced by local manufacturers to boost the supply of medical equipment needed in Australia’s fight against COVID-19.

Jet engines

At our Lab 22 additive manufacturing facility we've created components for the world's first 3D printed jet engine.

Penthrox green whistle

We helped Medical Development International move into the European market by creating a new, scalable and reliable manufacturing process for their Penthrox 'green whistle' pain-relieving drug.

Detecting gold on-line

We've partnered with Gekko Systems to commercialise a new technology that enables gold plant operators to determine the gold content in mineral processing slurries in real time to enable process control.

Longwall automation

Our longwall automation technology saw a 50 per cent uptake by the industry in just two years.

Research at a glance