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CSIRO closes after 40 years service to the industry

05/12/2005

Australia’s CSIRO Leather Research Centre has closed its doors for the final time after serving the industry for 40 years. The CSIRO Leather Research Group was established in 1965 under Peter Mason with Jim Scroggie at the Parkville-based Protein Chemistry laboratory. It moved to new dedicated laboratories at Clayton in 1991 as the Leather Research Centre under the leadership of Peter Gordon and later Catherine Money.

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