Flax (harakeke) surfboard

Composite materials (composites) are made when two or more materials with different properties are combined to produce a new material....

Professor Kim Pickering from the School of Engineering at the University of Waikato was the winner of the 2008 KuDos...

Microscopes have played an important role in recent research on harakeke (native New Zealand flax) at the University of Otago....

In the early 20th century, New Zealand’s flax industry was a significant money earner, supplying fibre for the world’s rope...

Professor Kim Pickering from the School of Engineering at the University of Waikato was the winner of the 2008 KuDos...