The Australian Future Cotton Leaders program was conducted between June 2009 and September 2010. The project framework was managed by Cotton Australia. The program involved three key stages over 14 months:

Investigation allowing for means of better processing long fine Australian cotton and further

improving ginning efficiency was accomplished. Research was conducted in New South

Industrlal trials as part of CRC Project No. 4.03.03 showed cotton through the MLC with a

combing ratio of 19 had 0.02 inches or 0.53 rum more length in terms of UHML (a 2%

Project CRC109 was a separately funded project with aims to examine the whole ginning process critically and focus on identifying new technology and systems in gin pre-cleaning, ginning itself, lint cleaning and/or ba