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 ...

WATCH: Jute has been processed in the same way for generations Jute, a vegetable fibre that can be spun into sackcloth, used to be the 'golden fibre' of Bangladesh. It brought much-needed foreign ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. New Zealand company The Formary said Starbucks will use a fabric it has designed to cover seating in its coffee shops. The fabric called ...

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 ...

Geo textiles are permeable fabrics used as an agent to strengthen the road foundations and prevent soil erosion along the banks. Jute geo textiles are generally 25 per cent cheaper than other fabrics.

Eco-concerns drive demand for biodegradable bags on the global market, giving rise to the exports of shopping jute bags from Bangladesh. Jute goods makers export around 100,000 shopping bags a month ...

Typically associated with the crude ‘gunny bag’ used in the bazaars of the Indian sub-continent, jute is now very much up-market with an amazing variety of fashionable products being turned out from ...

Inside a small tiled-roof shed at Shenoy Nagar in Madurai, the sound of sewing machines rent the afternoon air. Half-a-dozen women are at work, their heads bent in concentration on the jute fabric in ...

India is imposing further restrictions on Bangladeshi exporters, preventing them from shipping certain materials including woven fabrics, jute and flax yarn through its land ports. The move, ...