![]() NIIST's agro-waste leather substitutes have the capacity to effectively replace 30-50 per cent of the synthetic chemicals in the existing leather available on the market. The pacts, inked at the ongoing 'One Week One Lab Programme' (OWOL) at the institute, also included NIIST's collaboration for indigenous development of thermal-plate components for the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE)-DRDO and a transfer of technology for sustainable management of pathogenic biomedical waste into soil additives. The tie-ups with government and private organisations were formalised in the presence of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Director General Dr N Kalaiselvi and CSIR-NIIST Research Council Chairman Prof Javed Iqbal and CSIR-NIIST Director Dr C Anandharamakrishnan at a function at Bhatnagar Auditorium at the institute here on Monday. This is among three milestone agreements signed on the transfer of technologies developed by scientists at NIIST, it said. The synthetic leather involves toxic chemicals, making it a huge environmental hazard besides its high consumption of energy and water during processing. Also, the new product has a smaller carbon footprint'', the release said. ''The leather sheet developed from mango peels, banana stems, pineapple wastes, cactus, water hyacinth, corn husks, and rice related wastes, costs half that of the synthetic and animal leather. The technology to develop leather from agro-waste in a cost-effective manner was commercialised by the CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), an official release said here. PTI | Thiruvananthapuram | Updated: 14-03-2023 10:24 IST | Created: 14-03-2023 10:21 IST Representative image Image Credit: FlickrĪimed at providing an alternative to animal and synthetic leather, a central institute here has commercialised an innovative technology to manufacture such products from eco-friendly substitutes like mango peels and banana stems.
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