2025 Fact sheet: Producing High-Tech Metals and Materials

CSIRO has developed Australian Intellectual Property and demonstrated novel, lower energy and less toxic processes to produce Rare Earth material for magnet-making industries and lithium metal suitable for long-life one-use batteries and the next generation of solid-state lithium rechargeable batteries.

ANSTO and CSIRO have developed downstream processing routes for tungsten through to production of metals and materials essential to industrial and defence applications.