R&D update

R&D update keeps you in touch with AWI's R&D and innovation outcomes and demonstrates what is happening to ensure wool's position as the environmentally friendly, ethically produced fibre of choice.

2008

3 Apr - Clips give 3 kilo gain (1.3Mb pdf, new window)

27 Mar - Flystrike study exposes wrinkles (130Kb pdf, new window)

20 Mar - Progress to end mulesing by 2010 on track

19 Mar - AWI Board unanimously confirms support for industry decision to phase out mulesing

19 Mar - AWI confirms the facts

18 Mar - Clips viewed from the front line

6 Mar - Mulesing soap solution closer (81Kb pdf, new window)

29 Feb - Intradermal research hones in on new compound

27 Feb - RSPCA Letter to the Editor - Weekly Times (40Kb pdf, new window)

21 Feb - Naked truth on bare breeches (94Kb pdf, new window)

10 Jan - Clip trials near completion (97Kb pdf, new window)

8 Jan - AWI releases tools for growers and retailers as part of settlement

2007 R&D archive

2006 R&D archive

2005 R&D archive

Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) is a fully independent public company limited by shares and owned by Australian woolgrowers.

AWI initiates, commissions and delivers research and development (R&D) to Australian woolgrowers. AWI's primary aim is the adoption of technology on-farm and along the global wool pipeline.