Key Test Data - July 2012 (RTF)

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...

Washing Wool Made Easy

In nature, wool survives the toughest tests. And then, The Woolmark Company tests it again. And so, the latest campaign to be launched by The Woolmark Company is washable wool, with the tagline Tested by Nature; Tested by us. The main purpose of the...

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...

Electricity Energy Initiatives – WA Laboratory

AWTA’s Raw Wool operations are always looking for ways to reduce testing costs in order to keep testing fees to customers as low as possible. Electricity is a significant cost in wool testing, particularly in Western Australia, which provided the...

Summary of the Trial Which Established The Equation For Calculating The Australian Carbonising Yield

AWTA Key Test Data 2012 07

FeedTest Season Averages - September 2014 to April 2015

FeedTest, the hay and animal fodder testing division owned by AWTA, has published the average fodder test results for the 2014/15 season. In general, hay results are better than last season with higher proteins (0.5%) and energies (0.4MJ per kg) and...

Wool ComfortMeter to turn heads at global showcase in Shanghai

Revolutionary Australian technology that can guarantee the comfort of wool to the consumer will go on sale to the world at a major global textile and manufacturing showcase in Shanghai this week. The devices are on demonstration at the ITMA Asia event...

Services

AWTA Raw Wool provides independent and objective wool certification services. Major services provided are sampling, testing and certifying the yield, fibre diameter, vegetable matter content, staple length and staple strength of greasy wool before it...

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...

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...

AWTA upgrading Melbourne Raw Wool Laboratory software

AWTA will be upgrading the internal laboratory data capture and certification systems in the Melbourne Raw Wool Laboratory effective Monday 4th June 2018. One of AWTA Ltd’s main business objectives is to continuously improve the performance of its...

Update on Fibre Curvature Measurement

Recently, AWTA Ltd’s Raw Wool Laboratories completed a biennial re calibration of all LASERSCAN, OFDA and Airflow instruments as required by the International Wool Textile Organisation, Interwoollabs and NATA as part of part of our ongoing...

2016 Agricultural Census

The 2016 Agricultural Census is now on, and the due date for completion is 07 July 2016. Every five years, the Australian Bureau of Statistics measures the pulse of Australia’s agriculture industry, and it’s happening right now. The Agricultural Census...

Dark & Medullated Fibre

The Dark Fibre Testing service offered by AWTA is targeted at white-wool growers who are attempting to manage contamination from exotic sheep breeds, or who wish to monitor the contamination in lots carrying a high risk of contamination. Two...

Clean Colour

Average Yellowness is an important 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...

Premium Yield Test

Occasionally clients with an urgent requirement 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...

Enhancements to Certificate Verification

An online Certificate Verification service allows owners of AWTA Certificates to verify that they have legitimate versions of documents. Using an automated service, holders of AWTA documents can request an emailed copy of the original document for...

Australian Sheep & Wool Show 15 - 17 July 2016

The Australian Sheep & Wool Show will be held in Bendigo, Victoria later this month. The Australian Sheep & Wool Show is the largest show of its type in the world. More than 2700 sheep including 25+ breeds are joined by 30,000+ show attendees including...

Limestone Analysis - Agrifood Technology WA

Following the successful proficiency trials conducted with the West Australian Department of Agriculture and Food, Agrifood Technology WA now holds a status as an approved laboratory for the assessment and analysis of liming materials in accordance...

NCWSBA Wool Broker Award 2014

The National Council of Wool Selling Brokers (NCWSBA) are seeking nominations for their Annual Wool Broker Award. The Award recognises and rewards excellence in client servicing, auctioneering and innovation by a wool broker working for a NCWSBA...

Research and Development

Research & Development plays a major part in the development of AWTA Raw Wool. Based in Melbourne, the Research & Engineering group forms the largest wool measurement and engineering research group in the wool industry. Work conducted by the group...

Preliminary Estimates of the Between-Laboratory Variability from Rounds 1 - 4 of the IWTO Wool Residue Interlaboratory Proficiency Program 1999 - 2001

Understanding the Effects of Changes over Time to the OFDA 4000 Software

Investigations into the Repeatability & Precision of the Re-configured Almeter - AL2000

Application of a Raw Signal Filter on the Precision & Accuracy of the Almeter AL2000

The Development of a Quantified Risk Factor for the Presence of Dark & or Medullated Fibres in Australian Merino Wool

Final Report on the Performance of the Style Instruments

Fine Wool Out West - The Newsletter of the Condobolin Fine Wool Project

Statistical Modelling of the Conditioning Curve & Validation of the Rapid Conditioning Criterion

Comparisons of Moisture Content of Wool in Bulk by the Malcam Equipment & the Standard IWTO Procedures

The Measurement Precision & Evaluation of the Diameter Profiles of Single Wool Fibres

The Effect of Between Fibre Coefficient of Variation on the Fibre Fineness Measured by Airflow

Measurement of the Fineness of Superfine Wool - Effect of the Revised Laserscan Calibration Function on Comparisons

Effects of Standardising the Measurement Range on the Mean & Standard Deviation of Fineness from Laserscan & OFDA

The Precision & Accuracy of OFDA Instruments when Measuring the Curvature of Graticules

The Precision & Accuracy of OFDA Instruments when Measuring the Curvature of Graticules - Updated Analyses from 40 Instruments

The Influence of Preparation Techniques on the Measurement of Fibre Curvature

The Effect of Histogram Class Interval on the Calculation of Mean Fibre Curvature & Standard Deviation of Fibre Curvature

AWTA Analytics

Often refered to as Key Test Data, this free service includes access to current and historic testing volumes and test averages. Access AWTA Analytics. The AWTA Analytics service features: Bales, Lots and Volume tested by month and progressive (season...

Wool ComfortMeter Video Available

A video demonstrating the features and benefits of using the Wool ComfortMeter is now available. The Wool ComfortMeter is an instrument capable of objectively measuring the comfort of garments when worn next to skin, in particular garments containing...

AWTA EDI Service Change

For many years AWTA has provided a Virtual-Private Network (VPN) to connect customers with our EDI service so they can send and receive certificate data electronically. This is done via a VPN Client program (provided by CISCO systems) installed on the...

Charity Auction raises funds for Make-A-Wish foundation

Over 400 fleeces that were entered into this year’s Australian Fleece Competition in Bendigo in July 2014 have been sold at a charity Auction, raising almost $8,000 for the Make-A-Wish foundation. The fleeces were all donated by wool growers and sold...

Mount Challicum Fleece Tops Competition

An Ultrafine Merino fleece 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...

Australian Fleece Competition 2013

Entries are currently being sought for the 13th Australian Fleece Competition, a feature event at this year's Australian Sheep and Wool Show to be held in Bendigo, Victoria from 16 - 21 July 2013. Typically over 400 fleeces are entered in this national...

Delay to issuing Test Results - S24 & M24

Due to much higher than anticipated workload for next week’s sale there will be a delay in the issuing of some test results and consequently these tests will miss the normal catalogue transmission deadline on Friday. The NASC met this morning and have...

Key Test Data Summary for March 2016

The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for March 2016 compared with the same period last season are -4.7%, -6.1% and -5.7% respectively. Readers should take into consideration the fact that the Easter sale recess fell in March this...

Australian Wool Production Forecast December 2014

The Australian Wool Production Forecasting Committee (AWPFC) has forecast production in the 2014/15 season at 334 million kilograms greasy, down by 2% from the 2013/14 season total of 341 mkg. The fall in production is now anticipated to be slightly...

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...