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...

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...

A Review of the Distribution of Fibre Length in Tops

Use of NIR to Predict Residual Ash in the IWTO-19 Yield Test

Use of NIR to Predict Residual Ash in the IWTO-19 Yield Test - 2nd trial

Use of NIR Technology for Predicting IWTO-19 Residual Ash in a Commercial Laboratory

The Minimum Number of Acceptable Subsample Results Required in an IWTO Certificate for Wools of UK Origin

A Review of the Range Checks Used When Testing for Wool Base in Accordance with IWTO-19

OFDA4000 - A New Instrument for Simultaneous Measurement of Fibre Length & Diameter in Tops

Modelling of Length Distributions in the OFDA 4000

INTERWOOLLABS Report on Round Trials Completed in 2005, INTERWOOLLABS Management Committee

INTERWOOLLABS Report on Round Trials Completed in 2004

INTERWOOLLABS Report on Round Trials Completed in 2003

Experience with OFDA4000 in 2 Mills - Comparisons with Other Instruments

Update of Progress in Dark & Medullated Fibre Risk Project

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

Residues of Pesticides in Australian Wool 2004-2005 - Results from AWI Survey

Relationship Between Greasy & Processed Dark Fibre Contamination from DAMARA Crossbred Lambs in Merino Wool

Exotic Sheep Breeds in Australia - A Status Report

Development of an Improved Test for Detection of Dark & Medullated Fibres in Presale Core Samples

Determination of the Contaminant Threshold Level for Medullated Fibres in Merino Wool Fabrics

Detection of Pigmented & Medullated Fibre in Core Samples of Commercial Sale Lots from Merino Ewes Mated to Damara Fat Tail Rams

Dark Fibre Control in Sheep & Wool

Dark Fibre Contamination in Wool - Its Prediction & Ramifications

Dark & Medullated Fibre Contamination in Merino Fleece from Damara Crossbred Lambs; Top & Noil Products

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

Importance of the CVD of Fibre Diameter in Selecting Tops

Evaluation of the Performance of OFDA2000 Instrument Operating in OFDA 100 Mode

Comparison Between Measurement of 'Dry' & 'Conditioned' Wool Samples in a Water Filled Laserscan

5 Micron Fibres Found in an Ultrafine Grower Lot - Implications for Diameter Distribution Measurement

Analysis of the Curvature of Wool Offered for Auction in Australia

Vegetable Matter in Australian Wool

Grand Final Public Holiday 2016 - Victoria

The Victorian State Government has declared that Friday 30 September 2016 will be a public holiday in Victoria. Clients should note that the AWTA Melbourne Laboratory will be closed on this day. This Public Holiday will affect clients selling wool in...

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...

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...

Wooltech Core Machines

South Australian based manufacturers of wool handling equipment O’Connor Wooltech have adopted a new method of manufacturing that reduces the time taken to build a core machine. Wooltech have incorporated new design features that improve core line...

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...

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...

Agistment Urgently Required - Central West NSW

The bushfires in the Dunedoo/Coolah/Cassilis areas in the central West of NSW have devastated dozens of farming properties with an estimated 54,000 hectares burnt. There have been stock losses in these areas but, amazingly, some good news is coming...

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...

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...

IWTO Combined Certificates & OMLs

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 credit. Consignments often consist...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

2016 Agricultural Census

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 gathers and provides information on the production of key agricultural...

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...