Development of FRP composites using natural fibres for food packaging

Abstract

Packaging helps to protect and preserves the quality of the goods available for storage and transport purposes. Many businesses have begun to look for new techniques and tactics for better design in order to sell their products, which has boosted the need for change packaging materials. This market segmentation is expected to change significantly by the end of 2018 as Asia is projected to reach for more than 40% of global demand. Many of the popular packaging were plastic materials in form of boxes, cans, bags, bottles, wrappers, envelopes and containers. Those plastic-packaging materials performs well but it becomes non-degradable waste that causes unnecessary landfills and harmful to environment. To overcome such drawbacks, the recent researches reported that the renewable and biodegradable materials have drawn much attention in the packaging domain due to their eco-friendly nature. In this research, the biodegradable composite material has introduced for packaging applications using natural fibres. The different material of natural fibres such as Aloe Vera, Jute and Coir have used as reinforcement to make composite material. The mechanical behavior of Tensile, Compression, Flexural strength and Impact for different composition have studied experimentally and conducted the SEM analysis to determine casting failures. Comparatively, the obtained results show that the Jute material behaves better than others to replace packaging material do.