SISAL
The xerophytic Sisal is a plant native to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, whose scientific name is Sisal and belongs to the family Agavaceae. Its common name derives from the ancient port of Sisal located in the Gulf of Mexico by which this plant began exporting.
It is grown for its leaves that are extracted fibers used to make twine, rope, cloth bags, decor and can even make paper The Sisal (Perrine Sisal) is a monocotyledonous plant whose leaves produce a fiber hard, thick, creamy or pale yellow, about 1 to 1.5 meters in length About 60% of production is used in the manufacture of ropes and sacks. MAIN USES AND APPLICATIONS sisal fiber.
APPLICATIONS OF FIBER.
Sisal, so far, is essentially a factory producing the main plant hard fiber used in the manufacture of ropes of all kinds.
Generally, the grinding is done in machines such as scrapers and product obtained fibers, which allow industrially processed yarns engavillar obtained, harvester machines used in the manufacture of bags or bags for packaging various products (wrapping twine) in the making rugs, mats, hammocks, rope, twine, use of reinforcing material for plastics and masonry plaster, etc.
A new use of Sisal, is for the production of paper, as this fiber has a high cellulose content, low lignin content and features quite long fibrous cells. Sisal is worth mentioning that also provides a raw material which would produce "ecological role" because instead of deforested forests would cultivate semi-arid areas for the raw material to be converted and paper pulp. This possibility would make Sisal pulp in an attractive product ynorteamericanos in European markets, where many people concerned about the environment they prefer to use paper not made from the clearing of forests
