The strike is expected to bring the coir industry that exports products worth Rs 600 crore per year from Kerala to a complete standstill in coming days. One of the union presidents AS Sabu said the ...

Small-scale coir factory owners in Alappuzha who are grappling with a dearth of orders for coir handloom products are on the warpath again seeking government intervention to help tide over the crisis.

Vasudevan K., 65, was born into a family of coir workers at Aryad, near Alappuzha. His first tryst with the golden fibre at a professional level came when he joined a chaapra (coir products ...

Exhibitors from across the country have set up as many as 220 stalls to display exportquality items such as coir mats made of different kinds of fibres, mattings, carpets, rugs, tiles and mattresses, ...

IN a desolate tile-thatched shack that everyone calls a factory, sits Ciciliyamma. Against a shaft of afternoon light, puffs of goldhued bristle fibres keep falling all around her from the mill ...

Barely three weeks after the international expo, Coir Kerala 2013, was held here at a cost of Rs 4.5 crore in a bid to save the trade, the coir industry in the state is moving towards a complete ...

Have you ever wondered what happens to the husk of coconut trees? If not, then it is time you plan a trip to the International Coir Museum in Alappuzha in the state of Kerala. Set amid the lazy ...

A cooperative coir factory in Gubbi of Tumkur district is now making a comeback, keeping pace with changes in technology and adopting the latest developments in production techniques and designs. The ...

A coir factory in Madampe, has been completely destroyed by a sudden fire last night, Police said. Local residents, police and a fire fighting unit of the Chilaw Municipal Council were trying to ...