vue - Jute production

This promotional movie explains the benefits of jute and shows several applications of jute. Trademax is the expert on jute bags and offers a wide range of products. Please visit http://www.trademax.nl to see our full range of packaging solutions for agricultural and industrial use. Golden fiber. Jute, the most important and versatile natural fiber has emerged with endless possibilities while completely biodegradeable and environmentally friendly, being annually renewable and comparatively inexpensive. Jute has proven itself to be a dependable alternative to timber, synthetics and plastic. Think of jute .. and all we visualise is ropes, twines, sacks, packaging materials and a few handicraft. But the picture has changed greatly, and now Jute comes in a whole range of modern products ready for domestic, commercial, and industrial use. From fashion divas to car manufacturers, transport engineers to paper producers, in every sector jute has secured an acclaimed position. Jute fiber in blend with other natural and synthetic fibers can create stunning and lustrous fabric that is unparalleled in aesthetic appeal with durability and cost effectiveness. Designers all over the world are now finding potentialand offering products made from these new fabrics. Jute makes almost no demand on the world's scarse energy resources; the agriculture of jute requires very little or no use of pesticides and fertilizer making it an ideal organic fiber. India and Bangladesh account for ninety five percent of total world production of jute. It is also produced in limited quantity in Nepal, Myanmar, China, Thailand, Vietnam and Brasil. Jute cultivation is labor intensive. Mature jute plants are harvested and wetted in the water allowing the fiber to loosen to be extracted from the stem. Jute provides livelihood for millions of poor farmers and their families in Asia. Jute products, particularly packaging materials, once enjoyed major world market share, but with the introduction of synthetics and rapid technological changes the traditional jute market declined to some extent. In recent years, due to the natural advantages and development of new and diversified jute products, the market is again opening up for jute. A whole new range of jute products has now emerged from traditional products, like sacking made from lower grades of jute fibers. Hessian cloth, a fine quality jute fabric, having wide range of use and exported widely both as cloth and bag the versatile jute fiber is now used to produce jute rigid packaging reinforced plastic jute composites and exciting new projects. Bags of all types, ranging from shopping to fashion, are produced in different sizes, shapes and colors. Jute fiber can also be used as good quality pulp and paper, thus saving forest resources. Similarly jute yarn and twines are exported to produce jute based fabrics for furnishing, home decor, upholstery, blankets, cushion covers, and other textiles. Various decorating functions, toys, wall hangings, table lamps, floor coverings, packaging materials, shoes, fashion jewelry, doors and panels, particle boards and other items are also made by jute. jute geo textiles have high moisture absorption capacity flexibility and drainage properties and are used to prevent soil erosion and landslides by laying along river embankments, roadsides, hillslopes, etcetera. Jute plants are a huge source of renewable biomass. The carbon dioxide assimilation rate of jute is several times higher than that of trees. It is estimated that one hectare of jute plants can consume about fifteen tons of carbon dioxide from atmosphere and release about eleven tons of oxygen in the hundred days of the jute growing season. Besides, the production of jute sticks provides double the amount of fibre. jute sticks are a cheap source for fuel and fencing in villages and have great value to farmers. These sticks are also used to produce particle boards as wood substitute. Jute plant root contains beta corosine which helps improve soil texture and enrich soil soft leaves of juste plants are also consumed as vegetable. The leaves contain medicinal values; efforts are on to use jute sead oil in industrial purposes.