-
Australian wool production to ease in 2014/15
The Australian Wool Production Forecasting Committee's second forecast for 2014/15 has revised shorn wool production to 328 mkg, down 3.7% from 2013/14 levels. This decrease reflects the reduction in sheep numbers due to the high slaughter rates in...
https://www.awtawooltesting.com.au/index.php/en/about/news/83-australian-wool-production-to-ease-in-2014-15 -
Mount Challicum Fleece Tops Competition
from Mount Challicum Merino Stud won the Grand Champion Fleece title at the Australian Fleece Competition held in Bendigo as part of the Australian Sheep & Wool Show during July 2014. The 16.5 micron fleece was one of almost 500 entries this year and...
https://www.awtawooltesting.com.au/index.php/en/about/news/79-mount-challicum-fleece-tops-competition -
Scoured Wool
Scouring is the process of preparing and washing a batch of raw sheep's wool to remove impurities such as grease, dirt and suint. AWTA Raw Wool is able to perform the certified testing of scoured and carbonised wool for Wool Base, Vegetable Matter Base...
https://www.awtawooltesting.com.au/index.php/en/services/raw-wool-testing/scoured-wool -
Dark & Medullated Fibre Risk Scheme
Australian Merino wool has enjoyed a high reputation and price premium for more than one hundred years because it produced wool tops with low levels of dark and medullated fibre contamination. Recently, early and later stage processors of Australian...
https://www.awtawooltesting.com.au/index.php/en/services/raw-wool-testing/dark-medullated-fibre-risk-scheme -
Clean Colour
characteristic of wool because it is related to dyeing performance and it is not necessarily related to the colour of Greasy Wool. Considerable quantities of wool are typed as H1 (Light unscourable Colour), H2 (Medium unscourable Colour) or H3 (Heavy...
https://www.awtawooltesting.com.au/index.php/en/services/raw-wool-testing/clean-colour -
Staple Length & Strength
One of the most important characteristics for determining the value of greasy wool is the average fibre length that will be achieved when the wool has been processed or combed into wool top. This length is known as the Hauteur (fibre length in the Wool...
https://www.awtawooltesting.com.au/index.php/en/services/raw-wool-testing/staple-length-strength -
Auction Benefits BlazeAid
More than 140 Victorian wool producers did their part for the rural communities last week, as the annual Australian Fleece competition charity lots went under the hammer. And with the proceeds this year going to flood and fire disaster assistance...
https://www.awtawooltesting.com.au/index.php/en/about/news/41-blazeaid-auction -
Website Launch – AWTA Raw Wool
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new and improved AWTA Raw Wool website. The launch of the new website, with a fresh new look and modern design offers quick and user-friendly navigation to essential information on Wool Testing and the...
https://www.awtawooltesting.com.au/index.php/en/about/news/34-website-launch-–-awta-raw-wool -
AWTA Ltd
Parent Company: AWTA Ltd AWTA Ltd is the largest wool testing organisation in the world. As a consolidated group, comprises of 3 operating divisions in Australia (AWTA Raw Wool, AWTA Product Testing and Agrifood Technology), its wholly owned subsidiary...
https://www.awtawooltesting.com.au/index.php/en/11-divisions/24-awta -
Resources
AWTA regularly produces publications and resource material to assist and provide information to the Wool Industry in its day to day business with the Company, and to provide material to inform the industry about the Company and the services it...
https://www.awtawooltesting.com.au/index.php/en/resources