The most basic and essential
jute commodities fabricated in Indian jute mills are :
- Canvas : It is the finest jute item, woven with
highly premium grades of fiber. Jute canvas and screen
lamination along with paper polythene is widely used in mines
and for getting protection against weather.
- Sacking Cloth : Made up of low quality jute fibers,
sacking cloth is loosely woven heavy cloth used for packing
sugar, food grains, cement etc. Weighing from 15 to 20 ozs,
several qualities are available in this category like Twill, hy
Cees, D.W Flocer, Cement Bags and many more.
- Hessian Cloth : It is a plain woven superior quality
jute fabric, weighing between 5 and 12 ozs, a yard. Hessian
cloth is highly exported all across the world in the form of
cloth, bags etc. Also known as burlap, this cloth is vastly used
in wide ambit of applications.
- D.W. Tarpaulin : This product is majorly used for
coverings on a very high multidimensional scale.
- Bags : Used mainly for shopping, bags are usually
fabricated from sacking or hessian cloths. They are often
decorated with varied artistic designs and with straps, chains
and handles in several dimensions and shapes. Other category of
bags are promotional bags which are manufactured to promote
items for sale.
- Hydrocarbon free jute cloth : This cloth is
fabricated by treating jute with vegetable oil. It is a hessian
fabric, hydrocarbon free cloth, widely used for packing
different food materials, cocoa, coffee, peanut beans etc.
- Geotextile : It is a jute cloth laid along the river
embankment sides and hill slopes to prevent soil erosion and
landslides.
- Serim Cloth : It is a light weight hessian cloth,
used in felt industry for reinforcing the non woven fabric and
for strengthening paper with lamination.
- Tobacco sheets : Used for wrapping tobacco leaves,
tobacco sheets are made up of hessian cloth.
- Decorative items : The vast variety of decorative
products are made up of jute fabrics like wall hangings, toys,
table lamps, paper, decorative bags, furniture and many more.
- Hessian tapes and gaps : They are made up with
hessian cloth, woven with gaps at regular intervals and the
cloths cut between the gaps to make small width taps.