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  • WelTec to stage Innovation and Technology Expo

    WelTec Expo
    12 August, 2010

    The WelTec Campus at Petone will stage a one-day Innovation and Technology Expo on 20 August. The Expo is jointly hosted by WelTec, GNS Science, and IRL and will run from 9am to7pm at the WelTec Campus, 59 Cuba Street, Petone.

  • The weighting game

    Kilogram
    14 July, 2010

    IRL’s metrologists are taking a novel approach to bringing the kilogram — the last measurement to be based on a physical object — into the 21st century.

  • A phenomenal pairing

    Drs Buckley and Tallon
    14 July, 2010

    Winners of the inaugural Prime Minister’s Science Prize Drs Bob Buckley and Jeff Tallon represent between them a significant proportion of the world’s expertise in high-temperature superconductivity — a developing technology predicted to be worth billions of dollars globally in the coming decade.   

  • The sound of science

    Sound reproduction
    14 July, 2010

    A lifelong obsession with guitar playing, sound reproduction and acoustics led IRL scientist Dr Mark Poletti to develop a system that can transform a venue with less-than-perfect acoustics into a world-class concert hall.

  • A deeper connection

    WASSP
    14 July, 2010

    Electronic Navigation Ltd (ENL) and Industrial Research Ltd (IRL) have signed a long-term co-funding agreement that promises to underpin next-generation innovation at New Zealand’s premier marine electronics company and strengthen the country’s advanced sonar systems capability.

  • No gout about it

    Promising gout trials
    13 July, 2010

    A potential treatment for gout co-invented by IRL is showing promising results in human trials being conducted in the US.

  • Singing GlycoSyn's song stateside

    Richard Lauricella
    13 July, 2010

    Richard Lauricella has always had a passion for people and science—an ideal combination in his new role as US-based Business Development Manager for IRL’s drug development and manufacturing group, GlycoSyn.

  • Dynamic duo

    Handheld dynamometer collaboration
    13 July, 2010

    A collaboration between IRL and its Taiwanese counterpart, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), has resulted in the joint development of a unique product that is nearing market entry.

  • Island's elemental efficiency

    Solar energy
    13 July, 2010

    Wellington Harbour’s Matiu/Somes Island will soon be a step closer to becoming a showcase for sustainable energy, with IRL playing a key role in the project. Tenders were recently announced for the supply and installation of a renewable energy system on the island.

  • Setting the scene for a 3D revolution

    3D scene scanner
    13 July, 2010

    There is little doubt that 3D imagery is the way of the future, a fact borne out not only by the blockbuster success of recent 3D movies, but also by the keen marketplace interest in the latest trials of IRL’s 3D scanning technology.