New Zealand Wool Services International Ltd (WSI) is part of the Lempriere group of companies who own the largest share of New Zealand’s wool scours and are the only Wool Exporter to have scouring investment.”

Firmly established as New Zealand’s largest wool exporter, WSI incorporating JS Brooksbank have an annual turnover of approximately NZD 200 million.

Our global headquarters are in Christchurch, New Zealand and we have international offices in China and India. 

WSI was established in 1991 and is the only Wool Exporting company in New Zealand with investment in the scouring sector. WSI is now primarily a wool marketing and export business and part of the Lempriere group of companies.

As a major investor in the New Zealand scouring industry through group company ownership of the scouring plants located in Hawke's Bay in the North Island and Timaru in the South Island, WSI is strongly committed to a sustainable scouring industry located in New Zealand.

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Market trendlines for Coarse Xbred and Mid Micron.

The Lempriere Group is now the single largest shareholder in the two wool scouring plans operating in New Zealand .

The South Island Scour is located in Timaru, on the east cost of the South Island.

The North Island Scour is located in the Hawkes Bay on the east coast of the North Island.

The wool scours:

• are technologically superior 
• have fundamentally identical processes
• considerable economy of scale
• capacity to process all of New Zealand’s wool clip
• use pure New Zealand water to scour wool
• have strict systems of environmental care