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At the Carleton Place location, the handling of wool begins the moment it arrives at our warehouse. Whether the wool is delivered by farm truck, or commercial transport, each bag is carefully unloaded and brought into the facility for processing.
Once inside, the wool bags are sorted and weighed to ensure accurate records for each producer. Every producer’s wool clip is then individually graded by hand. This careful, hands-on grading process ensures consistency, quality, and fair market value based on fibre type and characteristics.
After grading, the wool is consolidated into 1,000-pound bales made up of similar fibre types. These uniform bales are then prepared for shipment and loaded into containers destined for Canadian and international mills, where the wool will be processed into finished products for markets around the world.
CCWG Wool Warehouse Handling Procedures at Carleton Place, ON
Modified grapple clamp attachment used at the Carleton Place wool grading warehouse to safely lift and handle bulk wool bags.
Forklift equipped with a modified grapple clamp unloading bulk wool bags from a transport trailer.
Forklift transporting multiple wool bags from the shipping container to the warehouse storage area.
Wool bags are unloaded using a forklift and grapple clamp and stacked in the storage area prior to grading.
Wool is removed from bulk bags and placed onto the conveyor system leading to the grading line.
Graded wool is manually assessed, sorted by quality and fibre type, then grouped by grade for coring and objective measurement testing.
The conveyor system transfers graded wool directly from the grading line into the wool press.
Double-chamber wool press used to compress graded wool into uniform export bales.
The wool press rotates 360 degrees to evenly compress and form the final bale shape.
Wire ties are secured around the compressed wool bale to maintain density and structural integrity.
Wire ties are secured around the compressed bale, and the hydraulic cylinder is raised to release the finished wool bale from the press.
Finished wool bale, weighing approximately 1,000 to 1,200 pounds, ready for wrapping, coring, and stacking.
Core samples are extracted from each bale to conduct objective fibre measurement and quality testing.
Wrapped and stacked wool bales staged in the warehouse, ready for export shipment.
A forklift and portable loading ramp are used to carefully load compressed wool bales into an export container.
Export container loaded at the Carleton Place, Ontario facility, prepared for international shipment to China.
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