Business   

More takers for plastic-wood partition boards

KOCHI: Development of plastic-wood profile-based partition boards has raised considerable interest among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the district. This has raised the hope for reusing plastic, a major concern for urban waste disposal facilities, and reducing wood consumption.

A discussion on Wednesday at the District Industries Centre (DIC) on the recent experiments by the Sophisticated Test and Instrumentation Centre (STIC) of Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) drew a large number of individual entrepreneurs and two major clusters in the district.

B. Prasanna Kumar, Manager, DIC, said the Aluva Plastic Cluster and Perumbavoor Plywood Cluster showed keen interest in taking up plastic-wood profile-based partition boards production on a commercial basis.

The plastic cluster is also learnt to have expressed its willingness to provide plastic raw material for the product.

Scientists from STIC also presented the plastic-wood profile-based partition boards that were made on an experimental basis. Director of STIC Jacob Philip and K.E. George of the Polymer Science Department of Cusat made the introductions.

According to the presentation, waste thermoplastics, which mainly include milk pouches, carrybags, PET bottles and sawdust are the components in making the partition boards. According to the scientists, waste plastic and sawdust were available almost at zero cost and the new process was also an answer to the problem of disposal of plastic waste.

The scientists said at present, partition boards were made of solid wood or plywoods of various types. Partition boards were also made of waste materials like jute sticks, non-commercial wood chips, sawdust, etc. Mr. Prasana Kumar said the DIC would help any unit that wanted to start production of the plastic-wood profile–based partition boards on a commercial basis. He said Cusat centres involved in the experiments were ready for the transfer of technology for commercial production.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Budget: focus is on inclusive growth
PAN card not relevant for income computation
Making of a people-friendly budget
Personal file sharing tools revisited
Doing business successfully in China, Sagnik Roy's way
More takers for plastic-wood partition boards
Land of surplus water resources

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu