"The setting-up of more collection centres and wider use of compactors in order to bulk-up loads that have to be moved to grading depots - as well as the use of new-style sheets and press packing machines - will also be introduced."
Mr Langrish stressed that these changes were part of an on-going review of cost saving measures underway within the British Wool Marketing Board.
The annual meeting was also told that in the latest elections covering Wool Board members for the English Southern Region, Welsh Northern Region and Scottish Southern Region - all three members had been re-elected unopposed.
They are Frank Langrish (English Southern Region); Tom Tudor (Welsh Northern Region) and Hugh Blythe (Scottish Southern Region)
The eleven members that comprise the board of the BWMB also announced at the meeting that they intended to waive their annual increment for this year.