Applications of jute fibers along with the properties and structural behavior responsible for those applications

Write down all possible applications of jute fibers along with the properties and structural behavior responsible for those applications.

Jute:

—  Jute is a natural fiber popularly known as the “Golden Fiber”.

—  Jute fiber comes from the stem of an herbaceous annual plant “Corchorus”.

—  Jute is the second in the world’s production of textile fibers after cotton.

—  India, China, Bangladesh are leading producers of Jute.

—  Jute is almost entirely a market oriented crop.

—  Bangladesh is the largest cultivator of raw jute.

—  The plant has a height of 8 to 12 feet.

Properties of jute fiber:

1.      Jute fibre is 100% bio-degradable and recyclable and thus environmentally friendly.

2.      Jute is a natural fibre with golden and silky shine and hence called The Golden Fibre.

3.      Jute is the cheapest vegetable fibre procured from the bast or skin of the plant's stem.

4.      It is the second most important vegetable fibre after cotton, in terms of usage, global consumption, production, and availability.

5.      It has high tensile strength, low extensibility, and ensures better breathability of fabrics. Therefore, jute is very suitable in agricultural commodity bulk packaging.

6.      It helps to make best quality industrial yarn, fabric, net, and sacks. It is one of the most versatile natural fibres that has been used in raw materials for packaging, textiles, non-textile, construction, and agricultural sectors. Bulking of yarn results in a reduced breaking tenacity and an increased breaking extensibility when blended as a ternary blend.

7.      Unlike the fiber known as hemp, jute is not a form of (Cannabis). Therefore, it can be much more easily distinguished from forms of Cannabis that produce a narcotic

8.      Jute is one of the most versatile natural fibres that has been used in raw materials for packaging, textiles, non-textile, and agricultural sectors.

9.      Jute stem has very high volume of cellulose that can be procured within 4-6 months, and hence it also can save the forest and meet cellulose and wood requirement of the world.

10.  Raw Jute and Jute goods are interpreted as Burlap, Industrial Hemp, and Kenaf in some parts of the world.

Applications of Jute fiber along with properties and structural behavior:

§  Jute is used chiefly to make cloth for wrapping bales of raw cotton, and to make sacks and coarse cloth.

• The fibres are also woven into curtains, chair coverings, carpets, area rugs, hessian cloth, and backing for linoleum. 
• While jute is being replaced by synthetic materials in many of these uses, some uses take advantage of jute's biodegradable nature, where synthetics would be unsuitable.
• Jute butts, the coarse ends of the plants, are used to make inexpensive cloth.
• Traditionally jute was used in traditional textile machineries as textile fibres having cellulose (vegetable fibre content) and lignin (wood fibre content). But, the major breakthrough came when the automobile, pulp and paper, and the furniture and bedding industries started to use jute and its allied fibres with their non-woven and composite technology to manufacture nonwovens, technical textiles, and composites.
• Jute can be used to create a number of fabrics such as sacking, scrim, carpet backing cloth and canvas.
• Hessian, lighter than sacking, is used for bags, wrappers, wall-coverings, upholstery, and home furnishings.
• Sacking, a fabric made of heavy jute fibres, has its use in the name.
• Diversified jute products are becoming more and more valuable to the consumer today. Among these are espadrilles, floor coverings, home textiles, high performance technical textiles, Geotextiles, composites, and more.
• Jute is also used in the making of ghillie suits which are used as camouflage and resemble grasses or brush.