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Proc. 11th Int. Wool Text. Res. Conf., Leeds, UK, 2005.
Proc. 12th Int. Wool Text. Res. Conf., Beijing, China, 2010.
Proc. 13th Int. Wool Text. Res. Conf., Hangzhou, China, 2015.
Even though the overall activity in wool research has decreased dramatically in the
last decade there are still several industry groups and research organizations doing
work in this area and they all have useful information on their websites. These include
the following:
• Australian Wool Innovation Ltd. (www.wool.com)
• CSIRO Manufacturing (formerly the Division of Textile and Fibre Technology and before
that the Division of Wool Technology) (www.csiro.au/en/Research/MF/Areas/Chemicals-
and-fibres)
• DWI (Deutschen Wollforschungsinstitut)dLeibniz Institute for Interactive Materials
(formerly the German Wool Research Institute, DWI) (www.dwi.rwth-aachen.de). Now
linked to the Aachen University
• AgResearch, New Zealand’s largest Crown Research Institute, an independent, Government-
owned, R&D company (www.agresearch.co.nz)
• The Department of Textile Technology, School of Materials, University of Manchester
(www.materials.manchester.ac.uk)
• The Textile Research Institute in Princeton (www.triprinceton.org).
• Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials (www.deakin.edu.au/ifm)

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