Two CSIR metallurgists have been awarded the prestigious Harvey Shacklock Gold Medal Award - the highest accolade in the South African welding industry in terms of research and development. This award was established in memory of Harvey Shacklock's contribution to the welding industry and was fir...
Mining sector to benefit from the CSIR's multidisciplinary research, development and innovation approach
South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) continues to undertake research, development and innovation to benefit the South African mining sector. The organisation was recently selected as a partner organisation to deliver the Mine Health and Safety Council’s Centre of E...
Hydrogen research facility launched at the CSIR
South Africa is constantly improving mineral processing technologies to enable more cost-effective and wider exploitation of the country's mineral resources, and the launch today of a suit of laboratories dedicated to hydrogen research is one such initiative. Launched by the Department of Science...
Novel chemical process to reclaim calcium carbonate from industrial waste
The CSIR has developed a novel process to reclaim high-quality precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) from calcium-rich industrial solid waste. High-quality calcium carbonate is useful for various specialised industrial applications such as gastric acid treatment, tablet filling in pharmaceuticals,...
Launch of CSIR additive manufacturing platform-and- aerospace advanced manufacturing centre
The CSIR and its industry partners - the Department of Science and Technology (DST), National Research Foundation (NRF), Aerospace Industry Support Initiative (AISI) and Aerosud - will launch a multimillion-rand Additive Manufacturing platform. This dual launch will take place at the CSIR Nationa...
Minister Pandor welcomes the new CSIR Board
"The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has gone from strength to strength, and is still, as it was in the 1950s, the biggest and best-resourced science laboratory complex in the country," said the Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, at the inaugural CSIR board meeting ...
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CSIR-Aerosud-Airbus partnership takes off to new additive layer manufacturing heights
A partnership between leading international aircraft manufacturer, Airbus; local scientific and technology research, development and implementation organisation, the CSIR; and South African aviation industry leader, Aerosud; aims to dramatically cut aircraft component production costs through new...
Semi-Solid Processing the focus of conference in Cape Town
The 12th International Conference on Semi-Solid Processing of Alloys and Composites (S2P) will take place at the Westin in Cape Town, South Africa, from 8 - 11 October 2012. This is a biennial conference focusing on the advancement of fundamental knowledge and development of materials and industr...
Poverty-related diseases to be the focus of high-level nanomedicine workshop
It is estimated that poverty-related diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), chagas disease, HIV/Aids and others kill approximately 14 million people annually. While these diseases reflect a dynamic relationship between poverty, morbidity and mortality, they f...
Workshop to define challenges of microsystems-based diagnostics for health in South Africa
Microfluidic and microsystem -based devices are at the forefront of diagnostic development for resource-poor areas. They offer solutions to problems such as lack of electric power, running water, clean laboratories and skilled people. Work on devices to be used at the point of care (POC) in Afric...