Staple Length & Strength

correlated with the average Staple Length and Staple Strength of the greasy wool measured prior to processing. Unlike core testing for yield and fibre diameter where bales are sampled using a core tube to cut through the wool in the bale, staple Length...

AWTA Podcast - by Elisabeth van Delden

Michael Jackson is the Managing Director of AWTA, the Australian Wool Testing Authority. In this Wool Academy Podcast Michael explains how wool testing works. In particular he explains what wool tests are applied to each bale of wool and what the...

Premium Yield Test

for test results can be frustrated by small delays in the issuing of test results due to the need to perform the testing of additional sub-samples or “check-testing”. This happens more frequently with lots that contain a wide range of wool such as...

Wool comfort revolution now on sale to global garment makers

research aimed at guaranteeing the comfort of wool to the consumer is now a commercial reality, with the Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA) today launching the Wool ComfortMeter and Wool HandleMeter. Developed by Australia’s Cooperative Research...

Statistics

is now presale tested and AWTA Certificate Database contains all this objectively measured information. The Company's testing database contains Certificate data from 1992/93 and we regularly publish statistical reports based on these data. Some of these...

Scoured Wool

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 and Mean Fibre Diameter. A further, separate test called...

Clean Colour

of greasy wool is an extremely poor indicator of the clean colour of the same wool when it is scoured. The benefit of testing the average clean colour of greasy wool presale is that it provides predictability of the processing potential of the wool and...

Yield & Fibre Diameter

AWTA Raw Wool's key service is the independent sampling, testing and certifying of the Yield and Fibre Diameter of greasy wool before it is sold. Prior to the measurment of Yield and Fibre Diameter, a representative sample must be obtained. A core...

Australian Wool Industry Unveils the Australian Wool Traceability Hub (AWTH)

(ACWEP), Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX), Australian Wool Handlers (AWH), Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA), National Council of Wool Brokers of Australia (NCWBA) and WoolProducers Australia (WPA). This...

Australian Wool Traceability Hub – 90% of Wool to be Traced by 2025

is being developed with input from Australian wool industry organisations: Wool Industries Australia (WIA), Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA), Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX), National Council of Wool Brokers of...

Equipment Manufacturing

Much of this is specialised equipment that cannot be obtained from other sources. AWTA is the largest supplier of wool testing equipment in the world, and has delivered equipment into Europe, Asia, New Zealand, South Africa and South America. In...

Retirement of AWTA China Manager, Robert Wang

Wool Corporation (AWC) in the 1990's and joining AWTA as China Manager in 2008. He was involved in translating AWTA testing information into Chinese, assisting to resolve testing questions and disputes and was intimately involved in the training and...

Wool Industry - Working Together to Future Proof Our Fibre

challenges and opportunities that exist today and into the future. More recently the group has involved the Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA) to bolster a more comprehensive industry approach. The key focus of this collaboration is to allow the...

Shorn wool production increases due to improved season

test volumes to the end of March 2021 were down by 0.9% year-on-year, however, there has been a sharp increase in AWTA wool testing volumes from February to April. First-hand offered wool at auction to the end of week 44 was up 12.1%. The increase is...

AWTA Still Open

AWTA Raw Wool would like to reassure our clients that as an Essential Service Provider - we will remain open for Testing. As a consequence of the announcement of an extension of the COVID-19 restrictions across NSW, and in particular in Greater Sydney...

Diversification the Key to Success

In an effort to remain financially viable over the years, the wool industry's peak testing organisation, the Australian Wool Testing Authority, has diversified into other industries. And it's a strategy that's paid off given the declining volume of...

Electronic Data Exchange (EDI)

AWTA provide electronic data for virtually every test we undertake. Customers can improve service turnaround and reduce testing costs by transmitting sale lot and bale weight data to AWTA as part of our standard core testing service. AWTA has been at...

AWTA upgrading Melbourne Raw Wool Laboratory software

or certificate distribution services used externally by our customers or service providers, nor to ANY of our Laboratory testing equipment. We have been testing the system and training staff in its use for several months to prepare for the cutover....

Wool ComfortMeter Video Available

by the Sheep CRC. This instrument is available for purchase or individual tests can be performed by AWTA Product Testing. Wool ComfortMeter from AWTA Limited on Vimeo. Click here to visit the Wool Comfort and Handle website. Click here to visit AWTA...

Australian Wool Production Forecast Update – April 2013

Committee chairman Russell Pattinson commented that reports from state committees and recent data such as Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA) year on year pre-sale wool test data (+3% till end March) were the main reasons for the small upward...

History

part in the marketing of Australian wool since the formation of the Authority as a statutory body. The Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA) was established in 1957 by the Commonwealth Government. Following the formation of the Australian Wool Board...

Using OFDA2000 & Fleecescan to Prepare Lots for Sale & Sheep Selection - A Case Study

The Relationship between New Zealand Merino Fleece Measurement Produced at NZPAC Ltd & their Corresponding Core Test Results

Supplementary Report to the In-shed Sampling Group

NSW In-shed Sampling Trials - Summary Report

In-shed Test Reports - Recommended Sampling Procedures

Impact of Test Result Precision on On-Farm Decisions

Impact of Test Result Precision on Genetic, Culling & Classing Decisions Taken on Farm

Comparison of the Performance of On-Farm OFDA2000 & In-Store Fleecescan - Part 2

Comparison of the Performance of On-Farm OFDA2000 & In-Store Fleecescan - Part 1

2003 AWI On-Farm Fibre Measurement Instrument Evaluation Trial - Part 2

2003 AWI On-Farm Fibre Measurement Instrument Evaluation Trial - Part 1 - Accuracy & Precision Trials

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...

Key Test Data Summary for April 2025

with the previous season, readers are reminded that the Key Test Data records the State in which the wool was sampled for testing rather than where it was produced. With the establishment of a major wool warehouse in Victoria during 2024 a sizable...

Declaration Rates

Property Identification Code (PIC) transmission rates: AWTA stores PICs that are declared by sellers as part of the presale testing process. Only the code is stored in AWTA's database and it remains anonymous as we have no means of identifying or...

Key Test Data Summary for March 2025

with the previous season, readers are reminded that the Key Test Data records the State in which the wool was sampled for testing rather than where it was produced. With the establishment of a major wool warehouse in Victoria during 2024 a sizable...

Key Test Data Summary for February 2025

with the previous season, readers are reminded that the Key Test Data records the State in which the wool was sampled for testing rather than where it was produced. With the establishment of a major wool warehouse in Victoria during 2024 a sizable...

Key Test Data Summary for January 2025

with the previous season, readers are reminded that the Key Test Data records the State in which the wool was sampled for testing rather than where it was produced. With the establishment of a major wool warehouse in Victoria during 2024 a sizable...

Key Test Data Summary for December 2024

with the previous season, readers are reminded that the Key Test Data records the State in which the wool was sampled for testing rather than where it was produced. With the establishment of a major wool warehouse in Victoria during 2024 a sizable...

Australian shorn wool production forecast for 2024/25 revised down to 279.4 Mkg greasy

treaty merchants, sheep pregnancy scanners, representatives from State Departments of Agriculture and the Australian Wool Testing Authority. Data and input were also drawn from AWEX, wool exporters, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, ABARES and Meat...

The Australian Wool Traceability Hub Gains Momentum

As such AWTA would require that a PIC be provided in order to issue the test certificate. The PIC would beheld in the AWTA testing database and stored in accordance with industry agreements. The likely earliest adoption of this proposal for commercial...

Key Test Data Summary for November 2024

with the previous season, readers are reminded that the Key Test Data records the State in which the wool was sampled for testing rather than where it was produced. With the establishment of a major wool warehouse in Victoria during 2024 a sizable...

Key Test Data Summary for October 2024

with the previous season, readers are reminded that the Key Test Data records the State in which the wool was sampled for testing rather than where it was produced. With the establishment of a major wool warehouse in Victoria during 2024 a sizable...

Key Test Data Summary for September 2024

with the previous season, readers are reminded that the Key Test Data records the State in which the wool was sampled for testing rather than where it was produced. With the establishment of a major wool warehouse in Victoria during 2024 a sizable...

Key Test Data Summary for August 2024

with the previous season, readers are reminded that the Key Test Data records the State in which the wool was sampled for testing rather than where it was produced. With the establishment of a major wool warehouse in Victoria during 2024 a sizable...

Volume and Trends

data on the number of bales, weight of wool tested and objective measurements. Wool Production by Statistical Area AWTA’s testing database contains extensive information on the origin of wool sampled and the region in which the wool was grown. The...

Australian shorn wool production forecast of 324 Mkg greasy in 2023/24

treaty merchants, sheep pregnancy scanners, representatives from State Departments of Agriculture and the Australian Wool Testing Authority. Data and input were also drawn from AWEX, wool exporters, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, ABARES, and Meat...

Specialised Wool Equipment

processing and fabric finishing techniques. Retailers can monitor the consistency of the garment’s comfort quality by testing batch samples and compare against the acceptable Wool ComfortMeter score thus ensuring consistent quality between shipments and...

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