MUMBAI, India, April 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517025682 A) filed by Scaleup Innovations Holdings Limited., London, on March 20, for 'method of extraction of fibres.'
Inventor(s) include Midani, Mohamad; Hassanin, Ahmed; and Hamouda, Tamer.
The application for the patent was published on April 11, under issue no. 15/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of obtaining long flexible textile fibres from species of palm trees. The method includes the combined steps of treating stems to delignify them by application of an alkali solution wherein the alkali solution may be a sodium hydroxide solution. Followed by scraping the treated stems to mechanically remove the non-cellulosic matrix and fibrillate the fibre vascular bundles by application of a blunt scraper blade. The step may comprise soaking stems in an alkali solution at a temperature t where t is in the range of: t = -4.82(c*d) + 92.3 C +/- 12.5 C, where c is the concentration of sodium hydroxide in %, or pH equivalent, and d the duration of treatment in hours."
The patent application was internationally filed on Sept. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/IB2023/059386.
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