INDIAN RAILWAY GEOTEXTILE INITIATIVE COULD BOOST HEALTH OF INDIAN JUTE SECTOR
September 1st, 2013
India’s sagging jute industry is hoping to receive a boost from a new Indian Railways project where jute-based technical textiles will be used to strengthen rail tracks. “Jute geotextile of a specified strength and size will be used on the subgrade of the railway tracks to enhance its bearing capacity,” said Tapobrata Sanyal, chief consultant to National Jute Board of India, “the cesses [the areas next to railway ballast] will also be treated with jute geotextiles to prevent surface soil erosion.”The pure-jute geotextile product has been jointly ...
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