Jute and Textile Product Development Centre
 

The Jute and Textile Product Development Centre has started as a five year project, funded by the Government of Bangladesh. The main objectives of the project are:

1.To shift and replace the abandoned equipment/machinery of the defunct Jutton Project from the compound of Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research to the BJRI compound.

2.To produce fine yarn and cloth from jute in blend with cotton, rayon, silk, polyester, acrylic etc. by the application of technology evolved by the Jutton Project and to strengthen the research activities for this purpose.

3.To create entrepreneurship, transfer the innovated technology for the purpose of commercial production, and promote marketing of the new products.

4.To develop the jute-based textile technology through the exchange of expertise and knowledge with textile, jute and garment industries and to make an extension of the technologies to the level of handloom and cottage industries.

5.To improve the country-made machinery and technologies in order to make a viable commercial production of jute based fine yarns and fabrics and various commodities produced experimentally in the laboratory