Delivering specialty polymers to grow the Australian economy 

The Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Polymers is a joint venture between its participants, incorporated through Polymers CRC Ltd, that was established and is supported under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Program. It is conducting agreed research, commercialisation, education and administration programs over a seven-year period ending June 2012. These programs are carried out collaboratively between the participating companies, the participating universities and Government research laboratories in Australia.  Its research focus is on developing ‘functional’ (i.e. responsive to physical or biological stimuli) and higher value-added specialty polymers for emerging high growth opportunities.  Its activities are creating research synergies between Australian polymer scientists and engineers, and other areas of research and economic strength.  The technologies that it delivers will result in growth in the biotechnology, energy, mining, agricultural and manufacturing sectors of the economy.