The UK organization Wool Industries Research Association was established in 1989 and is where Archer J.P. Archer and Richard L.M. Synge worked at when they published a paper in the Biochemical Journal.
It later became the Wira Technology Group before being merged with the Shirley Institute in the 1989 to form the British Textile Technology Group. It was funded by a levy raised under powers from the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947 through the Wool Textile Research Council, established in 1950. 
