Kochi, August 22: Bangalore based Central Institute of Coir Technology (CICT) under Coir Board has successfully designed and developed a technology for making moulded coir composite table tops as an effective substitute for wood and wood products.
The aesthetically attractive product, made out of coir woven and non-woven matting, which meets Bureau of Indian Standard specifications,was fit for any wood application in building construction including in furniture and was very much comparable in cost as well, the board said in a release here.
Inaugurating the machinery for the product at a function held at the institute in Bangalore yesterday, Coir Board Chairman V S Vijayaraghavan, said the product would soon be commercially exploited for which it was looking for the right entrepreneurship.
It would also be promoted through the coir clusters set up under the Board’s Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI), he said.
Of the 26 Coir clusters set up in various coir producing states,four of them were already operating in Karnataka and Chennapatana, Arsikere, Hassan and Gubbi.Of these, Chennapatana and Gubbi clusters had already adopted the coir composite technology as Common Facility Centres, he added.
—Agencies