Location: Headquarters, Lusaka

The programme is focused on providing technical services to support research and development projects at NISIR and production of ceramic and glassware products for outside clients

Ceramic Production

The overall objective is to produce and supply high quality shackle and reel insulators to institutions such as ZESCO for use in electrical installations.

Production of shackles and reel insulators and other ceramic products from the abundant quality local clay deposits has not been fully exploited. There has been a general satisfaction in importing industrial ceramic products. This has led to unnecessary loss of foreign exchange resources. NISIR has seized on it technical capacity and its past beneficiation research knowledge of Zambian clays to begin the production of shackle and reel insulators for the local market.

Scientific glassware fabrication/repair

The overall objective of this project is to provide effective support to research and development activities at NISIR and other institutions so as to reduce the cost of scientific glassware procurement and promote and enhance the conduct of scientific experiments in the education sector in Zambian.

The activities being undertaken under this project generates some income for NISIR and provides glassware supplies to laboratories and training of scientific glassblowers.

Repair and maintenance of scientific equipment

The main objective of this project is to provide backstopping support to research and development activities at NISIR and other institutions so as to reduce on equipment down time.

The project activities are repair and maintenance of various types of scientific equipment and other routine maintenance work.