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Johannesburg - Nestlé, the world's leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company, has announced on 5 March 2012 ground-breaking research partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a science council which reports to the Minister of Science and Technology.
"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
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.
The Digital Drum, a co-creation by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has been cited by the world's largest weekly news magazine, Time Magazine, as one of the top 50 inventions in the world for 2011.
The CSIR has developed a novel process to reclaim high-quality precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) from calcium-rich industrial solid waste.
Scientists must make critical contributions to ensure food security and environmental sustainability.
Dr Cornelius Ruiters has been appointed to the leadership team of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). He joined the organisation as Executive Director: CSIR Built Environment on 1 December 2011.
A novel method of sharing South African carbon data with a global audience through the use of social media has been put in place in November 2011 by the CSIR's Internet of Things engineering group.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Nanomedicine research programme, sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), has been awarded Centre of Excellence in health innovation status by the African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDI).