WOOL TESTING
levels of service to meet customer needs. The Express Service issues 95% of certificates the following morning of sampling, Fast Service issues 95% of certificates within 3 days of sampling, and the Normal Service issues all certificates within 5 days of sampling’. To achieve this quick service AWTA testing laboratories operate in Australia day and night, 5 days a week. Sampling is conducted in 38 cities and towns throughout Australia and many of these sampling locations are in remote locations across Australia.
The AWTA website provides a variety of information to users of Australian wool to assist them in understanding testing methods and technical aspects of Australian wool. The website includes information on testing raw wool, scoured and carbonised wool and speciality fibres such as Mohair, Alpaca and Cashmere.It also provides information on sampling, testing and certifying the yield, fibre diameter, and vegetable matter content, staple length and staple strength of greasy wool before it is sold.
Testing equipment measuring cashmere fibre length officially recognised in China
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LASSIFIBRE KCF-W supplied by Mesdan, an Italian company, is an officially recognised testing method in China for cashmere fibre length measurement. Mesdan Lab division is a leading supplier of testing equipment to the textile industry worldwide for natural and manmade fibres. It is electronic standardized equipment that measures fibre length, short fibre content and length distribution automatically. It is particularly suitable for Cashmere or any other similar “luxury” fibre up to 80 mm length. ‘We have over 30 sets in operation worldwide to measure Cashmere fibre length’, says Dejan Lalevic of Mesdan. ‘And since 2015 it has been an officially recognised testing method in China (FZ/T 20028 - 2015)’. Using the stabilized optical system with uniform linear light source makes the results free from light variation and the complicated calibration of the instrument is not required.
It provides easy and uniform sample preparation by using the sampler with the horizontal carding method rejects the bias among operators. The Classifiber is much faster than manual testing. It performs a complete test in about 20 seconds. A manual test takes about 30 minutes. Statistically it is more reliable using a sample of 20 grams, whereas the manual method only uses 0.5 gram. ‘All data obtained is saved in the database together with the information on fibres, suppliers, lot number, and more’, says Mr Lalevic. ‘And statistical data of each group within a certain period of time can be easily recalled.’ For more information please contact: Dejan Lalevic in Italy on Tel: + 39 0365653142 or at sales@mesdan.it Fred Kwan at Kar Ming Industrial Supplies Co. Ltd in Hong Kong - fred@karming.com Tel: 00852-24130688 wool2yarnglobal 2017
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