Australia's Quality Sheepskin Pty Ltd
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To guarantee the best quality the skins are
purchased green from the abattoirs. Then they are trimmed and at the first stage
of the grading we look in the green skin for the seeds and the ribs. At the next
step they are placed in a slow turning drum with fresh fine stoved salt
containing bactericides and fungicides. Drums are rotated for approximately 90
minutes. 2.5-3kg of salt per skin is used. After the salting we grade the skins
by the size and the wool length.
At the selection process we do
classification for the woolskin dressing trade, where wool style, density and
pelt quality are of equal importance.
During the grading when the wool quality is examined we use the following categories: Good - Super Good colour; free or nearly free of berry/seed, may contain light dust but high yielding skins. Ordinary Light to moderately berry, seedy, dusty,
discoloured, heavy conditioned wool - or any combination of those faults in
moderate degree. May also include slightly damaged wool. When the pelt quality is examined the skins
are put into 4 categories such as: Grade I Clean, fresh abattoir standard pelts of good
shape may include light rib especially around necks, no flay and knife cuts and
no seeds. Grade II Abattoir standard pelts may include light rib,
neck and/or flank cuts. May be slightly irregular pattern, light seedy at the
belly area, otherwise similar to Grade I. Grade III Abattoir standard pelts may show cuts and/or
medium rib and/or light to medium seed or be misshapen but the main area free
from serious defect. Damaged May show any combination of the following faults: heavy rid, seeds, misshapen, or otherwise damaged. All badly damaged skins or inferior pelts are excluded. Packaging Skins are packed on export pallets of about
785 kgs gross weight. 20 pallets are loaded into a 20-foot ocean freight
container. The quantity per pallet varies according to wool length, skin type
and skin size.
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