Australia’s wide-open spaces and healthy natural environment make it the perfect place to grow cotton, right on the doorstep of the world’s textile manufacturing market. Australian cotton is a success story with a rich history that has led to an efficient, responsible, modern industry that produces some of the highest quality, highest yielding cotton in the world – using fewer natural resources than ever before.
Australia is the leading supplier of high quality fibre to the world market. Australia’s cotton industry prides itself on continuous improvement and consistently delivers high quality fibre that offers spinners low breakages and stoppages, good throughput efficiency and uniformity of yarn.
Australian cotton is ginned with state of the art equipment and classed through modern certified classing facilities that participate in the International Cotton Advisory Committee CSITC Round Trials to ensure the highest standards.
You can depend on Australian cotton’s reputation for
Australia typically produces:
Grade Strict Middling and Middling
Length 1-5/32” – 1-1/4” (37-40)
29 mm – 32 mm
Micronaire G5
Strength 29-34 GPT
Uniformity 81-83
For further information about the qualities produced in any given year please go to Quality Snapshot.
ACSA and its Members participate in a number of cotton programs including
the Better Cotton Initiative and Cotton Leads.
For more information about Australian cotton to market initiatives including our industry
Best Management Practices, the Better Cotton Initiative and Cotton Leads please visit:
Australian Cotton www.australiancotton.com.au
Better Cotton Initiative www.bettercotton.org
Cotton Leads www.cottonleads.org