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Key Test Data Summary for February 2014
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for February 2014 compared with the same period last season are -12.3%, -10.1% and -10.0% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – February 2014...
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TOPMARK Benchmarking
TOPMARK is a free benchmarking service for processing mills and topmakers around the world. Independent trials have established there is a strong correlation between the predictive formulae used in this service and the processing performance of wool...
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IWTO Combined Certificates & OMLs
Wool Exporters and processors are required by purchasers to provide test certificates that show that a consignment of wool meet the requirments specified in a contract. These documents are also used to authorise payments by banks issuing letters of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Key Test Data Summary for January 2014
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for January 2014 compared with the same period last season are -8.2%, -8.2% and -8.1% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – January 2014...
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Key Test Data Summary for December 2013
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for December 2013 compared with the same period last season are +6.3%, +4.9% and +4.8% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – December 2013...
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Key Test Data Summary for November 2013
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for November 2013 compared with the same period last season are -14.1%, -14.2% and -14.2% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – November 2013...
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Key Test Data Summary for October 2013
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for October 2013 compared with the same period last season are +4.8%, +3.0% and +3.3% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – October 2013...
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Australian wool production expected to ease slightly in 2013/14
The Australian Wool Production Forecasting Committee has maintained its estimate of shorn wool production for 2012/13 at 350mkg. The Committee's second forecast of 2013/14 production remains unchanged at 345mkg, down 1.4 per cent from the 2012/13...
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Key Test Data Summary for September 2013
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for September 2013 compared with the same period last season are +8.2%, +7.1% and +7.4% respectively. There was one more working day in September 2013 when compared with September 2012. The...
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Key Test Data Summary for August 2013
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for August 2013 compared with the same period last season are -15.6%, -15.7% and -15.2% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – August 2013...
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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...
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Key Test Data Summary for July 2013
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 compared with the same period last season are +11.3%, +14.4% and +15.1% respectively. There was one additional working day in July 2013 when compared with July 2012. Progressively...
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Key Test Data Summary for June 2013
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for June 2013 compared with the same period last season are +2.4%, +1.1% and +0.4% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2012 – May 2013 compared with...
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AWTA Ltd Testing Fees 2013-2014
General wool testing fees have increased by 2% for the 2013/14 wool selling season, effective from 1st July 2013. The total cost for testing a typical 7 bale lot, including a Staple Length & Strength test, will increase by $1.42 from $68.35 to $69.77....
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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...
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Key Test Data Summary for May 2013
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for May 2013 compared with the same period last season are -12.7%, -9.5% and -9.1% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2012 – May 2013 compared with...
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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...
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Australian Wool Production Forecast Update – April 2013
The Australian Wool Production Forecasting Committee has increased the forecast of shorn wool production for 2012/13 to 350mkg, 2.3% above the 342mkg produced in 2011/12. The increase is due to an expected 3.3% rise in the number of sheep shorn, partly...
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Key Test Data Summary for April 2013
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for April 2013 compared with the same period last season are +6.5%, +12.1% and +12.3% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2012 – April 2013 compared...
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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...
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Electronic Services
AWTA offers a wide range of online and electronic services including: Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) TOPMARK TM Benchmarking Combined Certificates & Objectively Matched Lots (OMLs) Electronic Certificates including Chinese translations Online...
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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...
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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...
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Key Test Data
The Key Test Data Report is updated every month and contains detailed information relating to bales and lots tested by AWTA both for the current and previous seasons. There is also data detailling the comparative changes in Lots, Bales and Weight...
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Statistics
AWTA Raw Wool is the largest Wool Test House in the world, and Australia is the world's largest producer of apparel wool. Virtually all wool produced in Australia is now presale tested and AWTA Certificate Database contains all this objectively...
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Research papers
AWTA has achieved a world wide reputation for its research work and now has one of the largest teams of scientists working on raw wool metrology. Our scientists regularly report on their work to the technical forums of the International Wool Textile...
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Industry Links
International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) Australian Wool Industries Secretariat (AWIS) (Incorporates: Federation of Australian Wool Industries (FAWO), Australian Council of Wool Exporters and Processors (ACWEP) &...
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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...
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Wool to Benefit BlazeAid Charity
BlazeAid has been chosen as this year's Australian Sheep and Wool Show fleece competition charity. The volunteer organisation works with farmers and families in rural Australia to rebuild livestock fences that have been destroyed by natural disasters...
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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...
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Key Test Data Summary for March 2013
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for March 2013 compared with the same period last season are: -8.9%, -6.3% and -5.9% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2012 – March 2013 compared...
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FAQs
AWTA Raw Wool are frequently approached by brokers, wool growers and others who have specific questions about the Company, its services and many other matters which relate to the Wool Industry. A broad selection of questions are available below: AWTA...
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Accreditation
AWTA has a strong international reputation for Technical Excellence. AWTA submits its technical performance to external monitoring through an annual publication of Independent Laboratories Round Trials (ILRT) group performance to the International Wool...
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History
AWTA's history is synomonous with the transformation of wool production, marketing, valuing and processing from a reliance on subjective appraisal to objective systems of assessment. AWTA Ltd, and its objective Raw Wool measurement services, has played...
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