Jute:

Jute plant is one of the major cash crops in the world. Jute fibers are also known as Burlap or Hessian in North America. Jute fibers are very environment friendly and durable and can be used for various applications because of the flexibility of this product. Here are some of the advantages of Jute over cotton:

• Jute plant needs no pesticides or fertilizers to grow

• No Bleaching is required to weave its fibers

• Jute requires little to none chemical processing and dyeing

• Least allergic o all the fibers. Most gentle of all fibers to human skin.

• 100 % Bio Degradable

• Very gentle to the environment where these Jute bags are produced or decomposed

• Azo Free Dying and Printing can be done (Azo free is the highest standard acceptable in Europe)

Hessian

Hessian is a general purpose long established fabric which is used often to produce lighter sacks and for other forms of packaging. But it finds its way into many other market applications and there is a need for greater information on the latter in order to target the fabric at
potential growth areas and away from declining markets.

Market potential is often largest where a product is sold to end-users who select it for applications that are entirely defined by immediate market needs. Use of hessian for grass clippings or to place under cars to be repaired, geotextiles, landscaping, indoor plant displays, as insulation material, substrate for lamination, and for a myriad of other applications we know nothing about represent spontaneous product-market developments that could be taken advantage of.

Now a days, hessian is becoming very popular for manufacturing low cost shopping bags.

For more independent information on Jute please visit Wikipedia