Loro Piana Finest Wool Fiber Challenge Cup Announced

< p > the Loro Piana Challenger cup competition to encourage wool producers to produce high-quality wool fibers was unveiled in Hongkong recently.

Anna Emmerson, a farmer from New Zealand, won the year's challenge cup award with a package of 10.6 micron fineness of the high grade Merino wool from its Lindis Ridges farm.

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< p > it is learnt that only wool that meets specific fiber weight, length and strength can be allowed to compete in the competition.

The jury is composed of top executives from the Australian super fine wool Growers Association and the New Zealand Merino wool breeding Association. They selected the final winners according to the weight, length and toughness of each package of wool fibers.

In this competition, the Pyrenees Park farm operator Pamela and Robert Sandlant sent the wool fineness of the competition to 11.1 microns, which was the best wool produced in Australia before.

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< p > Loro Piana group CEO Pier Luigi Loro Piana said that since 2000, Loro Piana group has established the Merino wool Challenge Cup competition, aiming to encourage wool producers to make persistent and unremitting efforts in sheep breeding, improving and improving the quality of wool, so as to produce more high-quality wool fibers.

The fineness of wool fiber is one of the most important indexes in wool spinning industry, and is also the most important quality characteristic of wool.

Merino wool is a symbol of quality wool in Australia. After more than 10 years of research and development efforts, the average fineness of merino wool fiber has increased by 2.5 microns, which is unthinkable in the past.

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< p > Australian Wool Innovation Limited and the CEO Stuart McCullough of the international wool Bureau said at the awards ceremony that the Loro Piana group gave great support to the challenge cup competition and provided strong support for encouraging sheep breeders to produce high quality wool, so that the quality of wool was improved and improved.

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As in previous years, the Loro Piana group will buy the wool that won the race, and label and collect the finest wool fiber from the prize of the year, which represents the rarity and preciousness of wool fiber. P

The winning wool will be made into 150 meters of advanced fabrics and about 40 garments will be collected.

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