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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...

Improvements to EU EcoLabel Testing

for deliveries of greasy wool under its EcoLabel certification program have changed. The maximum number of sale lots to be tested as part of a greasy wool consignment is now 10 and AWTA’s Pesticide Testing service has new composite sampling requirements...

Wool to Benefit BlazeAid Charity

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 such as fires and floods. Visit the Corporate AWTA...

Key Test Data - Season 2013-14 (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...

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...

Victorian wins Wool Broker of the Year 2014

REX Bennett’s innovation and dedication to improving his clients’ bottom line has bagged him the title of Wool Broker of the Year. The Wangaratta-based Elders representative was shortlisted to present at the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

AWTA Melbourne Laboratory – Shift Closing

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,...

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...

Fact Sheet - Adjustments to Fibre Curvature Measurement

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

The Effect of Aqueous & Dual-Solvent Scouring on Wool Base Calculated According to IWTO-19

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

Results from Rounds 0 to 2 from the Interlaboratory Proficiency Program for Analysis of Pesticides on Raw Wool

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

A New Criterion for 'Time to Condition', with Data on Rapid Conditioning of Opened Fibre Assemblies

Using OFDA2000 & Fleecescan to Prepare Lots for Sale & Sheep Selection - A Case Study

Supplementary Report to the In-shed Sampling Group

Using Porosity to Measure Fibre Diameter

Using Photometry to Measure Fibre Diameter Distributions