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...
wool testing laboratories in the world, and are collectively responsible for the testing of approximately 40-50% of the world's greasy wool production and in excess of 80% of all greasy wool tested. The 5 laboratories currently participating in the ILRT...
AWTA Ltd is effectively owned by the wool industry. Each sector of the wool industry appoints a director to AWTA Ltd's Board. The Member/Guarantors constituting the Company are: Australian Council of Wool Exporters Inc. (ACWE) Australian Wool Processors...
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...
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...
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...
into a number of specific groups: Annual Reviews Brochures & Handbooks Industry Links Research Papers It is the Company's policy to make all its publications available on this web site. Where practical, publications can be viewed as web pages, in...
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) &...
on their work to the technical forums of the International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO). Papers published by the Company's scientists are available for reference purposes and academic use. Access to research publications produced by other...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
to essential information on Wool Testing and the broader AWTA Ltd group. The new website was developed as part of AWTA's ongoing efforts to enhance the quality and availability of information. Please take a look through our new site.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
he said. National fleece competition judge and Landmark wool specialist Ted Wilson, BlazeAid secretary Dick Patterson, AWTA's Steven Kar and judge and Tianyu Wool buyer Rod McLeish. Landmark senior wool manager and competition convenor Athol Fredrick...
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...
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...
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 total. The forecast...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
the Federation of Australian Wool Organisations (FAWO) has initiated a program to protect the reputation of Australia's premium Merino white wool by managing the risk of dark and/or medullated fibre contamination. The Dark & Medullated Fibre Risk (DMFR)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For many years the AWTA Melbourne laboratory has been open 24 hours a day, five days a week, requiring three shifts to staff the laboratory. From Monday, 6th April 2014 the AWTA Melbourne laboratory will permanently close its night shift operation,...
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for March 2014 compared with the same period last season are -3.6%, -0.2% and -0.2% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – March 2014 compared...
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...
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for April 2014 compared with the same period last season are -21.2%, -19.5% and -19.0% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – April 2014 compared...
Blue-sky 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...
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for May 2014 compared with the same period last season are -3.0%, -2.9% and -2.5% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – May 2014 compared with...
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...
The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for June 2014 compared with the same period last season are -1.2%, +1.1% and +1.7% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for Season 2013/14 (July 2013 – June...
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General wool testing fees have increased by 2% for the 2014/15 wool selling season, effective from 1st July 2014. The total cost for testing a typical 7 bale lot, including a Staple Length & Strength test, will increase by $1.50 from $69.77 to $71.27....