Jute: The Golden Fiber
Jute is a natural, long and soft vegetable fiber with golden silky shine, also termed as “ The Golden Fiber ”. It can be spun into coarse and strong threads. This fabric is also known as hessian and burlap. The very fine threads of jute can be separated out and made into an imitation silk. India is one of the largest producer of jute in the world. The prime goods woven of jute in India were coarse packaging materials, farmer market bags, grocery bags, shopping bags and floor mats, ropes and twines.

Characteristics

• 100% bio degradable, environmental friendly and recyclable
• Widely acknowledged as Golden fiber
• Cheapest fiber obtained from skin or bast of plant's stem
• High tensile strength and low extensibility
• Vastly used as raw material in packaging, textiles, non-textile, construction and agricultural applications
• High insulating and anti static properties
• Moderate moisture regain and low thermal conductivity
• Can be blended with other natural and synthetic fibers and used as dyes

Jute – Eco friendly & Golden fiber for modern products
The golden fabric jute is a plant which yields a fiber used for sacking and cordage. All across the world, jute is one of the most versatile fabric gifted to human being by nature that has several uses in the form of handicrafts. It is the cheapest and important textile fiber after cotton.

Changing trend
Jute can be exemplified as a golden natural fiber with versatile application aspects ranging from low value geo textiles to high value carpet, apparel, composites, upholstery furnishings, decorative color boards, fancy non-wovens for new products and many more. Due to its unique versatility and long lasting nature, jute is regarded as the Fiber For The Future. In coming era, variety of mini jute plants and jute mills will be seen engaged in the production of jute and jute blended yarns. These yarns are very light weighted and are used in varied applications like in upholstery, furnishing, garments, bags etc.