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A jute mill is a factory for processing jute. There is evidence of jute fibre extraction dating back to the Han dynasty , with a fragment of jute paper being discovered in Dunhuang, in the Gansu Province. [ 1 ]
HITIAG (Hanf-Jute-und Textilindustrie-Aktiengesellschaft) was founded in 1869 by Paul Pacher von Theinburg as the first Austrian jute spinning and weaving mill in Vienna-Simmering. Five years later, a jute factory was acquired in Floridsdorf, followed by the establishment of a jute spinning and weaving mill in Budapest in 1882.
Jute fibers, composed primarily of cellulose and lignin, are collected from bast (the phloem of the plant, sometimes called the "skin") of plants like kenaf, industrial hemp, flax , and ramie. The industrial term for jute fiber is raw jute. The fibers are off-white to brown and range from 1–4 meters (3.3–13.1 ft) long.
In 1855, George Acland, in collaboration with a Bengali financier named Babu Bysumber Sen and a Dundee jute overseer, installed the first jute spinning machinery at Rishra. Acland Mill was then established as the first jute mill in India. [1] [3] The mill was built on land that formed a part of the Garden House property once owned by Warren ...
The Birat Jute mill was run by the government till the 1990s. In 2002, during the policy of privatization, the factory was handed to Arihant Multi-fibre, a subsidiary of Golchha Organization. However, the company failed to run the factory due to political intervention and labour problems.
Natural resources like tea and jute in and nearby parts have made West Bengal a major centre for the jute and tea industries. West Bengal is at the forefronts of leather processing and leather goods manufacturing and has around 666 units producing leather and leather related goods.
The jute trade is centered mainly around India's West Bengal and Assam, and Bangladesh. The major producing country of jute is India [1] and biggest exporter is Bangladesh, due to their natural fertile soil [citation needed]. Production of jute by India and Bangladesh are respectively 1.968 million ton and 1.349 million metric ton. [2]
In 1911 a total of 31,500 were employed in the jute industry in Dundee, which accounted for 40.4% of all of the city's workers. [69] The first jute related patent in Dundee was granted in 1852 to David Thomson. Thomson had been an apprentice to the jute pioneer James Neish and had founded his textile business in 1848.