Products - Overview

Please Note:

The information contained below is for the purposes of comparing traditional paper making methodologies with the Papyrus Technology. There are many different ways to measure outputs and efficiencies of manufacturing processes, all of which are influenced by additional factors such as location, raw materials and energy availability.

Where we quote tonnages, water consumption, chemical usages and other data, we obtain this information from sources such as the United Nations (UNFAO) or Paper Making and other credible sites.

Our intention is to illustrate the potential of the Papyrus Technology NOT to minimise the efforts of the paper making industry as it is currently configured. The information contained in this section represents our best estimate of the situation and should not be construed as the only method by which such issues can be desribed.

Ultimately, the Papyrus Technology is a tool that the Paper Making Industry can use to produce products that have a significantly lower impact on the environment using a fibre resource that until now has not been available to the Industry

Overview

With world paper consumption exceeding 400 million tonnes per annum, the use of forest-sourced fibre to produce paper has increased greatly over the last hundred years. This has placed great demands on the world’s available forest resources and it is now widely recognised that alternatives must be found.

Recycling has been embraced in many countries as one way to reduce the amount of deforestation by the re-use of paper. Although recycling can assist in the reduction of the amount of forests being harvested, it is not possible to halt deforestation by this method alone.

The cost of collection and the continuous deterioration in quality of recycled fibre means that paper only be recycled a handful of times, before it becomes useless except as a fuel or as waste to landfill.

Clearly, the solution lies in the development of a range of products from a source of fibre that does not contribute to reduction of forests, from a process that does not make a significantly negative contribution to the environment.

The banana plant is an obvious fibre source due to its nature as a prolific, non-seasonal and currently unutilised fibre resource. The banana plant produces a pseudostem as often as twice yearly and the fibre is a by-product of fruit production.

The Papyrus Technology is a cost effective and environmentally sustainable process that utilises the abundant fibre resource produced by the banana plant. The Technology does not consume any chemicals or water during manufacture and water is actually produced as a by-product of production.

The Papyrus products are wholly substitutable for many existing common products in both the paper and timber markets and can be produced from within a plantation, greatly minimising the cost and environmental impact of transporting raw materials to a production site.

The Papyrus Technology and the range of Papyrus products are well placed to provide both the timber and paper industries with a new, innovative, low cost and environmentally sustainable solution to the problems of fibre resources and the increasing cost of operating current technologies to address an increasing demand for products.