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Light Metals Flagship making a difference to industry

Read customer stories showing how our science in light metals is making a difference to Australian industry.

  • 11 May 2011 | Updated 14 October 2011

Researchers in the CSIRO Light Metals Flagship have a history of working closely with industry partners to:

  • provide practical solutions to industry challenges
  • provide scientific expertise to assist in making industry more productive
  • keep Australian industry at the forefront of global competition with Australian innovation.

This page presents a number of customer stories, showing how we have successfully implemented new and improved technologies in:

  • the primary light metal production industry (aluminium, magnesium and titanium)
  • metal manufacturing (die casting, direct manufacturing).

Markus Oswald of o.d.t. with CSIRO engineers Pat Rohan and Vu Nguyen, and the CASTfill pouring wheel.
Casting a partnership for export success

Technology developed by CSIRO scientists in collaboration with an Australian SME and Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) through the CAST CRC is helping boost global sales of Australian ingot casting machines.

Chain conveyor ingot casting.
Safer mould shape means no hot splashes

An aluminium ingot mould design devised by CSIRO researchers has overcome a safety hazard from boiling coolant water splashing onto molten aluminium in newly filled moulds.

Dr Raj Rajakumar, The Hon Ian Macfarlane, MP, and Andrew Downes at the announcement of the T-Mag joint venture.
T-Mag joint venture targets automotive components industry

A new casting technology, producing super-light magnesium alloy components that are cost-competitive with aluminium and steel, will be taken to market by a joint venture between the Light Metals Flagship and three South Australian manufacturing companies.

A man standing next to a reduction cell in an aluminium smelter
Rio Tinto Alcan collaboration to reduce smelter energy use

CSIRO is helping Rio Tinto Alcan develop a new generation of aluminium production cells that will cut energy use by 10 per cent, reducing operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

Learn more about the Light Metals Flagship partnering with research institutions:

Photograph of a man watching a machine pour in an Ingot Mill
Breakthrough technology for primary aluminium

Supporting the aluminium industry to remain globally competitive by developing new energy saving technologies.

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Ms Nola Wilkinson (BSc(Hons) GradDipMkt)

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Email: Nola.Wilkinson@csiro.au

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About CSIRO

CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.