Research papers

AWTA has achieved a world wide reputation for its research work and now has one of the largest teams of scientists working on raw wool metrology. Our scientists regularly report on their work to the technical forums of the International Wool Textile...

FAQs

and in the catalogue? Why are small changes in micron so important in determining the price of fine wool? What is Dark and Medullated Fibre Contamination? What problems do Dark and Medullated Fibre Contamination cause? Mulesing Status The questions...

Dark & Medullated Fibre Risk Scheme

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 wool have noticed increased occurrences...

Dark & Medullated Fibre

four specimens, each of 5 grams, of washed and carded core sample using the Dark Fibre Detector to identify the dark and medullated fibres present. These samples are inside a sealed plastic bag, from which the air has been excluded, where they are...

Raw Wool Terms August 2013

Declaration Rates

Property Identification Code (PIC) transmission rates: AWTA stores PICs that are declared by sellers as part of the presale testing process. Only the code is stored in AWTA's database and it remains anonymous as we have no means of identifying or...

Status Report on Dark & Medullated Fibre Testing of Presale Core Samples and Review of the Detection Threshold