INDIGENOUS INVENTION: Jute fiber to be turned strong as steel
Inventor Forkan Sarkar from DUET presented jute as an alternative to steel at an international conference
Forkan Sarkar, Associate professor of DUET, invented a way to use jute known as the golden fiber as an alternative to iron and steel through technological conversion. The 'Fiber Manufacturing Tech Box', an invention of Mr. Forkan shed new light on the ongoing international conference on ‘Emerging Trends in Traditional and Technical Textiles’ in India.
During the presentation of the main article on Saturday in the third session of the conference, he opened a new door for the use of jute fibers in making clothes as well as in the infrastructure development sector.
In the original article, he discusses how jute is converted into a completely new method by changing the physical and chemical structure of jute.
The promising researcher also demonstrated the effectiveness of his new device to collect this transformed jute into a completely new web form.
The research results show that the full strength of jute is retained by improving jute processing methods over conventional methods. But the energy is reduced by about 50% when jute is collected in web form through spinning machines. New web architecture development by transforming jute fiber in new ways can make this golden fiber an engineering material as an alternative to iron and steel in structural and load bearing applications.
250 academicians and researchers from around 10 countries including Bangladesh, Japan, South Korea, China, United Kingdom, USA, Germany, France, Ethiopia and Denmark participated in the conference organized jointly by National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jalandhar and Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.
The 250 academicians and researchers present at the seminar expressed hope that golden fiber jute will once again bring golden days to jute producing countries like Bangladesh in the construction of sustainable infrastructure as an environment-friendly material.
At the end of the seminar, the chief guest of the conference, India's Secretary of Textile Industry, Clothing and Handicrafts and NIT Director Vinod Kumar Kanaujia had a private discussion with Dr. Forkan Sarkar on the latest technology of jute and proposed to work jointly with India in the future.
