Bangladesh can earn billion dollar from the domestic market by ensuring proper use of jute geo-textile (JGT) in preventing soil, river and embankment erosion and landslide in hilly areas instead of ...

The International Jute Study Group (IJSG) has suggested that Bangladesh government should use jute geo-textile with concrete in construction of roads and highways in order to enhance jute usage.

The production of jute textiles has fallen significantly over the past two years due to a drop in exports and the government's failure to strictly impose the mandatory packaging law that led to ...

No evident progress has been seen in the last couple of years to finish constructing the Sheikh Hasina Specialized Jute Textile Mill, according to various sources. The project is built under the ...

The textile engineering division under the Institute of Engineers (India) is pitching for wider application of technical textile in civil engineering. SM Chatterjee, a council member of the Institute ...

The Indian Road Congress has accepted certain patterns of jute as a geo-textile that can be used for laying/ building of roads. The move is expected to give a boost to the jute industry, 87 per cent ...

The Union Textile Ministry is considering policy intervention, both long-term and short- term, to address the issues impeding the growth of the jute industry upon which the economy of West Bengal is ...

In the dim light of a century-old mill, dozens of men work in silence, their sweat-darkened undershirts clinging to taut, weary backs. Hulking metal machinery clatters and thrums, coughing up fibrous ...

Earlier this year, designers Wei Hung Chen and Raiheth Rawla took a field trip to Queens. They were there to visit the Noguchi Museum and see firsthand how, in Chen’s own words, Isamu Noguchi’s ...

With the National Jute Board strongly recommending the use of geo-textile for road construction, the R6,500-crore Indian jute industry could hope for a revival. The application of jute for protection ...