THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The National Coir Research & Management Institute (NCRMI) won its first patent from the Government of India recently for its technology to develop the air-freshener gel ‘Cocoaura’ ...

National Coir Research and Management Institute (NCRMI) has made a breakthrough in the process of manufacturing coir pith from coir fibre, which could help realize the country’s coir export target of ...

Coir pith can now be used as an energy source, courtesy an initiative by the Coir Board. Experiments conducted by the research and development wing of the board have concluded that electricity can be ...

The soil and climate in Pollachi are ideal for coir manufacturing Pollachi, one of the world’s largest exporters of coir fibre and pith, is facing a setback like never before. Coir manufacturers are ...

Coir pith has emerged as a major item of foreign exchange earnings in the export basket of the country over the last five years. It has accounted for 50 per cent of coir and coir product exports in ...

Kochi: Environmental degradation has had a surprising side effect. It has given a new lease of life to Kerala’s age-old coir industry and fuelled the rise in demand for two of its products—coir ...

The Coir Board is planning to set up a coir pith based 10 MW power plant here on an estimated outlay of Rs 50-crore. The first of its kind initiative in the country under the Coir Board is borne from ...

Indian coir pith exports are likely to benefit further from the proposed move by England to ban peat moss sales - a primary ingredient in seed-starting and potting mixes - from 2024. Mahadevan ...

Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has shifted coir pith units to orange from the white category, forcing the units to follow stricter pollution control norms to curb water and ...

An Indian-Malaysian research group has investigated the effectiveness of several passive cooling techniques for solar panels, including the placement of plants around the modules or coir pith ...