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History
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 an increasingly important part in the marketing of...
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Accreditation
AWTA has a strong international reputation for Technical Excellence. AWTA submits its technical performance to external monitoring through an annual publication of Independent Laboratories Round Trials (ILRT) group performance to the International Wool...
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FAQs
others who have specific questions about the Company, its services and many other matters which relate to the Wool Industry. A broad selection of questions are available below: AWTA Who is AWTA Ltd? Where is my nearest AWTA Raw Wool Office? Our Services...
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Key Test Data Summary for March 2013
Total Lots, Bales and Weight for March 2013 compared with the same period last season are: -8.9%, -6.3% and -5.9% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2012 – March 2013 compared with the same period last...
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Australian Fleece Competition 2013
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 competition making it the largest fleece competition in the world. Prizes to...
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Wool to Benefit BlazeAid Charity
BlazeAid has been chosen as this year's Australian 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...
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Resources
day business with the Company, and to provide material to inform the industry about the Company and the services it provides. The material is intended for anyone wishing to develop a broad understanding of wool, wool production, marketing, testing and...
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Industry Links
International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) Australian Wool Industries Secretariat (AWIS) (Incorporates: Federation of Australian Wool Industries (FAWO), Australian Council of Wool Exporters and Processors (ACWEP) &...
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Research papers
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 Organisation (IWTO)....
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Statistics
AWTA Raw Wool is the largest Wool Test House in the world, and Australia is the world's largest producer of apparel wool. Virtually all wool produced in Australia is now presale tested and AWTA Certificate Database contains all this objectively...
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Key Test Data
month and contains detailed information relating to bales and lots tested by AWTA both for the current and previous seasons. There is also data detailling the comparative changes in Lots, Bales and Weight tested and seasonal changes in the measurement...
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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...
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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...
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Electronic Services
systems within the wool industry through membership of the Wool Industry Electronic Data Processing Users Group (WIEDPUG). This industry body is responsible for implementing data communication standards within the wool industry, with which all AWTA EDI...
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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...
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Key Test Data Summary for April 2013
Lots, Bales and Weight for April 2013 compared with the same period last season are +6.5%, +12.1% and +12.3% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2012 – April 2013 compared with the same period last season...
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Australian Wool Production Forecast Update – April 2013
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 offset by 1.1% fall in average fleece...
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Website Launch – AWTA Raw Wool
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new and improved AWTA Raw Wool website. The launch of the new website, with a fresh new look and modern design offers quick and user-friendly navigation to essential information on Wool Testing and the...
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Key Test Data Summary for May 2013
Total Lots, Bales and Weight for May 2013 compared with the same period last season are -12.7%, -9.5% and -9.1% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2012 – May 2013 compared with the same period last season...
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Electricity Energy Initiatives – WA Laboratory
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 impetus for two major...
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AWTA Ltd Testing Fees 2013-2014
General wool testing fees have increased by 2% for the 2013/14 wool selling season, effective from 1st July 2013. The total cost for testing a typical 7 bale lot, including a Staple Length & Strength test, will increase by $1.42 from $68.35 to $69.77....
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Key Test Data Summary for June 2013
Total Lots, Bales and Weight for June 2013 compared with the same period last season are +2.4%, +1.1% and +0.4% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2012 – May 2013 compared with the same period last season...
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Key Test Data Summary for July 2013
Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 compared with the same period last season are +11.3%, +14.4% and +15.1% respectively. There was one additional working day in July 2013 when compared with July 2012. Progressively AWTA Ltd has tested 20.4 mkg...
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Auction Benefits BlazeAid
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 non-for-profit organisation BlazeAid, they might...
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Key Test Data Summary for August 2013
Lots, Bales and Weight for August 2013 compared with the same period last season are -15.6%, -15.7% and -15.2% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – August 2013 compared with the same period last...
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Key Test Data Summary for September 2013
Lots, Bales and Weight for September 2013 compared with the same period last season are +8.2%, +7.1% and +7.4% respectively. There was one more working day in September 2013 when compared with September 2012. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots,...
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Australian wool production expected to ease slightly in 2013/14
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 total. The...
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Key Test Data Summary for October 2013
Lots, Bales and Weight for October 2013 compared with the same period last season are +4.8%, +3.0% and +3.3% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – October 2013 compared with the same period last season...
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Key Test Data Summary for November 2013
Lots, Bales and Weight for November 2013 compared with the same period last season are -14.1%, -14.2% and -14.2% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – November 2013 compared with the same period last...
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Key Test Data Summary for December 2013
Lots, Bales and Weight for December 2013 compared with the same period last season are +6.3%, +4.9% and +4.8% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – December 2013 compared with the same period last...
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Key Test Data Summary for January 2014
Lots, Bales and Weight for January 2014 compared with the same period last season are -8.2%, -8.2% and -8.1% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – January 2014 compared with the same period last season...
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Yield & Fibre Diameter
service is the independent sampling, testing and certifying of the Yield and Fibre Diameter of greasy wool before it is sold. Prior to the measurment of Yield and Fibre Diameter, a representative sample must be obtained. A core sample is taken from each...
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Staple Length & Strength
of greasy wool is the average fibre length that will be achieved when the wool has been processed or combed into wool top. This length is known as the Hauteur (fibre length in the Wool Top). In addition, the average strength of staples is important in...
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Clean Colour
of wool because it is related to dyeing performance and it is not necessarily related to the colour of Greasy Wool. Considerable quantities of wool are typed as H1 (Light unscourable Colour), H2 (Medium unscourable Colour) or H3 (Heavy unscourable...
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Dark & Medullated Fibre
contamination from exotic sheep breeds, or who wish to monitor the contamination in lots carrying a high risk of contamination. Two technicians visually examine four specimens, each of 5 grams, of washed and carded core sample using the Dark Fibre...
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Dark & Medullated Fibre Risk Scheme
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 of dark and medullated fibres in...
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Scoured Wool
is the process of preparing and washing a batch of raw sheep's wool to remove impurities such as grease, dirt and suint. AWTA Raw Wool is able to perform the certified testing of scoured and carbonised wool for Wool Base, Vegetable Matter Base and Mean...
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IWTO Combined Certificates & OMLs
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 of numerous...
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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...
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Key Test Data Summary for February 2014
Lots, Bales and Weight for February 2014 compared with the same period last season are -12.3%, -10.1% and -10.0% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – February 2014 compared with the same period last...
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AWTA Melbourne Laboratory – Shift Closing
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, redeploying...
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Key Test Data Summary for March 2014
Total Lots, Bales and Weight for March 2014 compared with the same period last season are -3.6%, -0.2% and -0.2% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – March 2014 compared with the same period last...
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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...
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Key Test Data Summary for April 2014
Lots, Bales and Weight for April 2014 compared with the same period last season are -21.2%, -19.5% and -19.0% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – April 2014 compared with the same period last season...
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Wool comfort revolution now on sale to global garment makers
reality, with the Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA) today launching the Wool ComfortMeter and Wool HandleMeter. Developed by Australia’s Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation (Sheep CRC), the technology is set to revolutionise...
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Key Test Data Summary for May 2014
of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for May 2014 compared with the same period last season are -3.0%, -2.9% and -2.5% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for July 2013 – May 2014 compared with the same period last...
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Wool ComfortMeter to turn heads at global showcase in Shanghai
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 in Shanghai from 16 - 20 June 2014 at stand E5-H17. Used together the...
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Key Test Data Summary for June 2014
Total Lots, Bales and Weight for June 2014 compared with the same period last season are -1.2%, +1.1% and +1.7% respectively. The progressive comparisons of Total Lots, Bales and Weight for Season 2013/14 (July 2013 – June 2014) compared with last...
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Wooltech Core Machines
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 productivity and operator safety. New finance and rental...
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AWTA Ltd Testing Fees 2014-2015
General wool testing fees have increased by 2% for the 2014/15 wool selling season, effective from 1st July 2014. The total cost for testing a typical 7 bale lot, including a Staple Length & Strength test, will increase by $1.50 from $69.77 to $71.27....
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