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University of Canterbury

28 August 202025 August 2020

UC Connect-PhD scholarship: “CORDENKA® fibre centred product design”

New project aims to develop a wide range of previously unknown possibilities for the use of CORDENKA^® fibres and CORDENKA^® fibre composites in product design

UC Connect-Promotionsstipendium: “CORDENKA® fibre centred product design”

Neues Projekt zielt darauf ab, eine breite Palette bisher unbekannter Möglichkeiten zur Verwendung von CORDENKA^®-Fasern und CORDENKA^®-Faserverbundwerkstoffen im Produktdesign zu entwickeln

14 January 20209 January 2020

Help coming for didymo rivers

Young NZ student is turning an algae pest into profit

12 July 20199 July 2019

Turning food waste into bioplastics

An ingenious new solution being engineered at the University of Canterbury aims to turn food waste into valuable chemical components that could be used to make bioplastics

10 October 20149 October 2014

Wooden skyscrapers could be the future of flat-pack cities around the world

The development of engineered timber could herald a new era of eco-friendly ‘plyscrapers’. Christchurch welcomed its first multistorey timber structure this year, there are plans for Vancouver, and the talk is China could follow