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...

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...

The Effect of the Diameter Characteristics of the Fibre Ends on the Skin Comfort & Handle of Knitted Wool Fabrics

COVID Impact on Service Time

Like all businesses and organisations across Australia, AWTA has recently suffered increased staff absenteeism due to the impact of COVID on our workforce. Although all our employees are vaccinated, we have staff who have been infected through...

Key Test Data Summary for July 2021

The monthly comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2021 compared with the same period last season are: +31.5%, +35.2% and +35.0% respectively. Note that testing volumes for July 2020 last year were somewhat affected by COVID restrictions...

Change to rounding of results - Scoured & Carbonised Wool

The reporting of residual Ash % and Grease (AEM) % results will change to one decimal place on all Scoured and Carbonised Core Tests and Guidance Reports from Friday, 5th April 2019. Previously, these measurements where shown to 2 decimal place but a...

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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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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

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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...