Research papers

of the Diameter Profiles of Single Wool Fibres The Relationship Between Mean Fibre Diameter Measurements by Airflow & Laserscan for South African Wools Comparison Between Measurement of 'Dry' & 'Conditioned' Wool Samples in a Water Filled Laserscan What...

Raw Wool Laboratory Equipment

The NextGen Laserscan The measurement of wool fibre diameter can be conducted through four distinct methods as delineated by the International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO). AWTA Ltd employes the IWTO-12 Laserscan fibre diameter analyser method for...

FAQs

benefits of Staple Length & Strength Measurement? For Staple Measurements how is the Position of Break calculated? What is Laserscan? What is Comfort Factor? What is the precision (repeatability) of wool testing? Fleece Measurement How much sample...

Fact Sheet - Laserscan - A Quick Tour

The Relationship Between Mean Fibre Diameter Measurements by Airflow & Laserscan for South African Wools

Relationships Between Mean Fibre Diameter Measurements by Airflow, OFDA & Laserscan for South African Wools from Different Breeds

Relationship between Core Test Measurements by Airflow, Laserscan & OFDA of Merino Wool Classed at NZPAC

Measurement of the Fineness of Superfine Wool - Effect of the Revised Laserscan Calibration Function on Comparisons

Measurement of the Fineness of Superfine Wool - A Comparison of Airflow, Laserscan & OFDA

Importance of CVD of Blends of Wool Tops when Measured by Airflow, Laserscan & OFDA

Effects of Standardising the Measurement Range on the Mean & Standard Deviation of Fineness from Laserscan & OFDA

Effect of Fibre Relaxation on The Mean Fibre Diameter & Fibre Diameter Distribution Measured by Laserscan & OFDA

Effect of Fibre Medullation on Laserscan Diameter Measurement

Effect of Cell Snippet Position on Laserscan Diameter Measurement

Comparison of Histograms from OFDA, Projection Microscope & Laserscan for Wool Tops

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

Calibrating Laserscan for Raw Wool Measurement & an Evaluation of an Alternative Transport Fluid

Laserscan Technology Brochure

Brochures and Handbooks

Fleecemeasurement Test certificates & reports Download: Testing the Wool Clip Brochure Testing the Wool Clip - Chinese Laserscan Technology This brochure contains a detailled discussion of the Sirolan Laserscan equipment used by AWTA for the...

Equipment Manufacturing

into Europe, Asia, New Zealand, South Africa and South America. In particular, AWTA is licensed to manufacture the NextGen Laserscan used to determine the fibre fineness characteristics of wool, and the ATLAS instruments, used for determining Staple...

Testing the Wool Clip - Chinese

Yield & Fibre Diameter

size of the shadow cast by the individual fibres is recorded. For a standard test samples are measured on four separate Laserscan instruments and 1,000 individual fibres are measured on each machine. The combined results from 4,000 snippets, are used to...

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...

Fleece Measurement

sheep are submitted by sheep breeders and wool growers for the routine measurement of Fibre Diameter (micron) using a Laserscan instrument. This instrument provides other data in conjunction with the Fibre Diameter result, including the Coefficient of...

Fleece Measurement Service Request (Yield, Micron, L&S, Colour)

Services

and private sector. AWTA also design, manufacture and service a wide range of wool tetsing equipment including the Sirolan Laserscan and Additional Tester of Length and Strength (ATLAS) machines.

Accreditation

(1970) fibre length measurement of wool tops using the ALMETER (1972) fineness measurement of wool tops using the LASERSCAN (1997) fineness measurement of wool tops using the O.F.D.A. (1997) AWTA is an active member of the Association, providing...