Four years ago, they learned about abacá, a plant in the banana family that produces long fibers that are sometimes used to make rope or paper; the fruit it produces is different from the kind ...

At the bar, Kevin Diedrich (Pacific Cocktail Haven, Kona’s Street Market) pulled together a fruit-soaked cocktail ... and selling woven baskets from the abaca plant. Customers will be able ...

So, we ordered two desserts. We had the chocolate muron, which was a chocolate sticky rice served alongside passion fruit and mango ice creams. Delicious. We also had the apple pie à la mode ...

Abaca fiber is extracted from the stems of the banana plant using a decorticator. DLPC’s technology turns the fiber into ...

Textile company Bananatex has developed a biodegradable lightweight jersey fabric by extracting fibres from the stalks of Abacá banana plants. Bananatex developed the fabric by extracting fibres ...

MANILA, Philippines — The former use of abaca fiber for Philippine bills – which will soon be dominated by plastic (polymer) bills produced and printed in foreign countries – may soon be ...