The gears, belts and drums of the 65-year-old wool-processing machine began to turn, slowly at first, then faster and faster as it started singing its high-pitched song. "Ready!" Brad Strohm hollered, ...

The study, initiated by the industry’s peak body WoolProducers Australia and completed by Deloitte Access Economics, has shown early stage processing could be completed in Vietnam, India and ...

They have the second largest water bill in the town of Frankenmuth after a big restaurant on Main Street known for serving thousands of chicken dinners to tourists. They are the Zeilinger Wool Company ...

Portugal, Bangladesh, Latin America, Cambodia and Africa have all emerged in Australian Wool Innovation’s emerging markets strategy as avenues worth pushing to sell more fibre. The goal of the ...

Suzanne had been a fiber hobbyist but never envisioned running a mill with Jay. The Horschler family, the former owners, ran the mill since the 1970s as a phone order business for wool hobbyists. They ...

Australian Wool Innovation has singled out Vietnam as the next possible hub of wool processing. The cost of hiring workers in China, in the labour-intensive industries of spinning and garment making, ...

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