Blackall provides a unique value proposition
A former wool scouring location, Blackall’s wide open spaces and access to renewable energy sources (geothermal and solar) offers QWool a number of competitive advantages – allowing the Australian wool industry to optimise its supply chains and be sustainable from farm to factory.
Ideal Water Supply
Efficient Domestic Logistics
Low-Cost Land
Renewable Energy
Water Re-Use
Solid Waste Re-Use
Export Savings
Local Wool Growth
Community Support
Blackall Scour – Site Layout
The Blackall Scour will be located adjacent to the historic Blackall Scour, will have its own bore from the Great Artesian Basin and be powered by renewable energy generated on-site. The site also has Type 2 road train access.
Blackall Scour – Plant Layout
The Blackall Scour will scour (clean) up to 14 million kg of Australian merino raw (greasy) wool to produce 9.1 million kilogram per year of scoured (clean) wool, and 1.2 kg of wool grease (Lanolin). Potassium salts will also be recovered from wastewater and converted to a fertilizer product.
Planned workforce
The Blackall Scour will employ a primarily local Central West workforce (44 of 48 staff), using flexible “lifestyle” rosters to support rural livelihoods. With wool processing skills lost over 40 years, training will be provided from Italian experts and equipment suppliers to build local workforce capability and knowledge.
We have an ambitious target to grow agriculture in this state, and it starts here in Blackall.”
Hon Tony Perrett MP
Minister for Primary Industries