The Cottonscope technology has been successfully transferred to BSC Electronics and into

their company Cottonscope P/L. Comparison of Cottonscope test results with reference

cross-section test data show good, clear relationships. To date Cottonscope instruments are

located at CMSE Belmont, CPI Narrabri, the USDA ARS SRRC New Orleans LA, Texas

Tech University Lubbock TX and Dai Chinig Textiles Ltd. , Guangdong (owned by Central

Textiles Hong Kong)

The next two years will be important in terms of extending and marketing the instrument, and

testing iterations expected in the software, sample preparation procedures and linkages with

other test instruments, e. g. HVl, and quality prediction systems, eg. Cottonspec

In September 2011 agents of BSC Electronics will exhibit Cottonscope at the Barcelona

ITMA. In February 2012, the instrument will be displayed by CSIRO at the Australian

Cotton Seminar in Chongqing, China. To this end, CSIRO have submitted a PRP to the

CRDC for funding to support Cottonscope in 20/2/13.