About Manufacturing Technologies for Transport and Mining

Detectors and Sensing Systems
Detectors and Sensing Systems

- We create advanced detectors and sensing systems that provide sustainable competitive advantages to our customers and improve eco-efficiency of manufacturing and mining processes.

Electric Motors and Energy Storage
Electric Motors and Energy Storage

- We develop sustainable technologies for transport applications, including advanced electric drives for hybrid and electric vehicles, highly-efficient electric motors, electronic control systems and power generators.

Lightweighting and durability
Lightweighting and durability

- We develop light-weight, durable materials and the processes for manufacturing these materials.

In the news

Mineral exploration tool developers win major award

A team of CSIRO Future Manufacturing Flagship scientists has won a major mining industry award for the invention of the highly sensitive magnetic field sensor which sits at the operational heart of the mineral exploration tool, LANDTEM™.

CSIRO helps clinch global car component deal

Access to a portfolio of cost-competitive CSIRO casting technologies was crucial to Nissan Casting Australia’s (NCAP’s) recent successful bid to manufacture components for the Nissan Motor Company’s new LEAF electric car in Dandenong, Victoria.

New ‘green’ technologies make die castings stronger

Conventional die castings can be made stronger using new, more environmentally friendly technologies developed by CSIRO.

Putting tyres on the recycling road

CSIRO is working with Australian company VR TEK Operations to design and develop a new, improved method of recycling waste rubber which could be used to make new tyres, industrial insulation, road pavement, flooring or geotextiles for retaining walls and embankments.

CSIRO’s UltraBattery goes global in the auto sector

The CSIRO-invented UltraBattery is set to have a global impact on greenhouse gas emissions after Japan’s Furukawa Battery Company, which has already begun production of the UltraBattery, and US manufacturer, East Penn, today signed an international commercialisation and distribution agreement for the technology.

UltraBattery awarded $US32.5 million from US Government

The CSIRO-invented UltraBattery is set for accelerated development with the US Government awarding $US32.5 million to US manufacturer East Penn to produce the battery.

Lightweight composites to get trimmer and smarter

CSIRO researchers have set themselves the goal of producing a new generation of super-strong, lightweight polymer composite materials for use in aircraft, road vehicles, trains and ferries.

Plugging into an electric vehicle revolution

A road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which could one day end up in every Australian driveway, is underway.

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