This is made into yarn through a paper-making process based in Taiwan, which is then knitted, assembled and manufactured into the final product. The jersey aims to offer a sustainable alternative ...

Harvesting and cultivating abaca is a labor-intensive process as the pulp is removed by cutting strips and scraping stalks. Fibers obtained from the process are then dried and removed. Abaca fiber ...

However, the technology to properly process abaca fibers at scale did not exist at the time.” Lao said DLPC is doing the ...

Back then, the Aboitiz family traded abaca — “Manila hemp” — used to make ropes and textiles. Fast-forward more than a century, and they now trade in megawatts, bank accounts, airport ...

She warned farmers that the recovery process would be slow, as abaca plants take 24 months or more to regenerate. Government records showed that 13,777 farmers were displaced by the typhoon in ...