Paper From Coconuts.
p. 18 · Read in the full issue
A YOUNG Madras graduate, Mr. S. R.
K. Menon, claims to be able to make paper from coconut husks.
His experiments were carried out in Ceylon, the price of coconut husks there being cheaper than in Travancore. the important coconut-growing centre of In dia. where the coir (coconut fibre) in dustry is highly developed.
Mr. Menon’s process consists in reducing the husk to a brown pulp and then bleach ing it. He declares that 10,000,000 acres of coconut plantations in India and Cey lon could supply the world with cheaper and better paper. According to his scheme, husks to the value of 3/- could produce paper worth 36/-, and he has asked for aid in his researches.