Regarding Banana fiber
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ananyaagrotech
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BANANA FIBER EXTRACTION AND WEAVINGDear Sir,
I have interest in business with making the banana fiber. I request you could you please mail how to make the products with banana fiber and setup a Unit.
Regards,
Rao
INTRODUCTION
Banana fiber is eco friendly like jute fabric. The technology of banana fiber extraction has been developed in South India where in a good number of banana fiber extraction units have been running very successfully. Some firms are exporting the banana fiber products.
Banana growing states of N.E.Region has adopted the technology from South and started
production of banana fiber and fabric.
MARKET POTENTIAL
The banana fiber is being used for weaving attractive pieces of clothes, rugs, sarees etc.
Besides, it is also being used to produce a variety of items such as hats, photo frames, trinket boxes, gift bags, picture frames, hand bags, belts, baskets and sandals etc.
Dresses woven out of natural fibers are in great demand inside and outside India.
PLANT CAPACITY
Capacity utilization : 70%
Average daily production envisaged : 10 Kg cloth.
Working days/year : 25 days in a month and 300 days in a year.
Annual production :
- Door Mat : 1000 Nos.
- Floor covering : 1000 Nos.
- Screen : 1600 Mt.
- Durry : 1500 Nos.
RAW MATERIALS
The main raw material for the unit is banana tree which is abundantly available .
PROCESS
Banana Fiber Processing and Weaving :
The extraction of the natural fiber from the plant required certain care to avoid damage. In the present experiments, initially the banana plant sections were cut from the main stem of the plant and then rolled lightly to remove the excess moisture. Impurities in the rolled fibers such as pigments, broken fibers, coating of cellulose etc. were removed manually by means of comb, and then the fibers were cleaned and dried.
This mechanical and manual extraction of banana fibers was tedious, time consuming, and
caused damage to the fiber. Consequently, this type of technique cannot be recommended for industrial application. A special machine was designed and developed for the extraction of
banana fibers in a mechanically automated manner. It consisted mainly of two horizontal beams whereby a carriage with an attached and specially designed comb, could move back and forth. The fiber extraction using this technique could be performed simply by placing a cleaned part of the banana stem on the fixed platform of the machine, and clamped at the ends by jaws. This eliminated relative movement of the stem and avoided premature breakage of the fibers. This was followed by cleaning and drying of the fibers in a chamber at 20oC for three hours. This fibers were then labeled and ready for lamination process.
After extraction of fiber, weaving is done in the looms as per normal process like any other
material. for more details ananyaagrotech@yahoo.co.in