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The CSIR has partnered with the University of KwaZulu-Natal to pioneer biorefinery in South Africa.

| Projects
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Completed

The CSIR-developed guide titled Steering towards a Green Economy, provides an introduction to green econom

| Media Release
Date: 
Monday, February 11, 2013 - 00:00

Transnet SOC Ltd and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) today formalised a historic partnership that will allow Transnet to tap into the CSIR's technological innovation and research capabilities.

| Media Release
Date: 
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 00:00

In continued efforts to improve observations that will help scientists to understand the precise links between climate and the carbon cycle in the most southern waters of the world's oceans, the CSIR's Marine Robotics programme has deployed the first robotics platform in the Southern Ocean that c

| Media Release
Date: 
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 00:00

Keolebogile (Lebo) Sebogodi is one of the CSIR's researchers who are making inroads into the challenge of creating value from industrial waste, specifically Kraft pulp mills. She is a resilient final-year PhD student who is dead set on making a difference, despite the challenges she has had to overcome.

When Sebogodi (31), who hails from Lobatla Village in the North-West, commenced her studies in BSc in biology and chemistry at the North-West University in 2005, she had to overcome hurdles similar to those that many young first-year students face every year.

| Scientific Infrastructure

The CSIR is the supplier and solution provider for high quality nanomaterials and nanotechnology-based products in South Africa.

Fluidised bed combustion has been used to burn coal for many years, but using the experience gained at the CSIR to convert industrial waste to energy gives an important new slant to existing techno

| Media Release
Date: 
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 00:00

Major step to unravelling the structure of membrane-bound proteins published in Nature journal.

| Media Release
Date: 
Monday, May 23, 2016 - 00:00

Agrément South Africa (SA), an agency of the Department of Public Works, managed by the CSIR, awarded 38 fit-for-purpose certificates during the 2015/16 financial year following a rigorous process of testing and evaluation.

| Media Release
Date: 
Thursday, June 23, 2016 - 00:00

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has estimated that commercial farmers in the Dwars River area of the Western Cape spend approximately R600 000 per year ridding their irrigation systems of filamentous algae.