Study and Design of Products From Palm Fiber

Abstract

The purposes of this study is to examine the design products from oil Palm fiber, which aimed to 1) study the qualification of oil Palm fiber, 2) develop new material for design products, 3) design products from new material developed from oil palm fiber, and 4) evaluate manufacturers, sellers and consumers' satisfaction from using products from newly developed oil palm fiber.  There are about 5.45 million hectares of farm land in Thailand and the exploration found that the oil Palm is used only some part of the trunk but the other parts have never been used, especially the trail of the trunk.

The study found that fiber in Palm trail can be peeled and used as a material for design products by 1) boiling 2) pressing 3) cutting it into rings, and 4) weaving. The surveying of palm fiber products users found that the satisfaction product derived from palm fiber; very good (means=4.20, S.D.=0.74) The characteristics of the palm fiber deployment; very good (means=4.40, S.D.=0.40) so that the study framework of choosing material to suit the design; very good (means=4.40, S.D.=1.11) is affect to the needs of consumers from the design process through the production process. Using palm fiber in product design should be tested of tensile, toughness, and shrinkage as the compliance testing institute of Textile. However, this kind of material is not widespread so it needs a further research in the future.