Textile grade
Best for: spinning, fine weaving, premium yarn
The longest, cleanest, most uniform strands — the grade mills blend into cottonized banana fiber for yarn production.
Technical Material — HS 5305
Banana Fiber Manufacturer & Exporter in Bangladesh
Export-grade raw banana stem fiber — 1–3 m strands, 500–900 MPa tensile, lab-tested per lot — produced at our factory in Modhupur, Tangail.
- MOQ 200 kg
- FOB Chattogram
- Quote in 24 h
- HS 5305
The Material
Golden strands, farm to bale
Every banana plant fruits once. After harvest the pseudostem — meters of layered, fiber-rich leaf sheaths — is usually discarded. We turn that waste stream into one of the strongest natural fibers available to industry.
At a Glance
Banana fiber specifications
Production specs from our factory in Modhupur, Tangail, verified per lot. Need a parameter tested that is not listed? Per-lot ISO/IEC 17025 accredited lab reports (Hohenstein) are standard, not an upsell.
Fiber yield is roughly 5–8% of fresh pseudostem weight; the remaining biomass is composted back to the soil — about 190 t of agri-waste diverted across our ecosystem each year. See the full farm-to-fiber process or compare our other natural fibers.
Natural Banana Fiber — Technical Data Sheet
- Fiber length
- 1.0–3.0 m long strands from the banana pseudostem
- Fiber diameter
- 80–250 microns, grade-dependent
- Moisture regain
- 10–12%
- Tensile strength
- 500–900 MPa (ISO/IEC 17025 accredited lab-tested range)
- Density
- ~1.35 g/cc
- Elongation at break
- 1–3%
- Grades
- Textile — long, clean, uniform strands for spinning and fine yarn; Craft — consistent medium strands for weaving, baskets, and décor; Industrial — cost-efficient shorter strands for rope, paper, and composites
- Bale sizes
- 25 / 50 / 100 kg compressed bales; custom packaging for orders above 500 kg
- HS code
- 5305 — vegetable textile fibres
- Origin
- Modhupur, Tangail, Bangladesh — produced at our own factory
Harvest Season
The pseudostem that would be burned becomes the bale you spin
Pseudostems are collected from surrounding farms within days of harvest, washed without chemicals, and graded strand by strand — one mill, one standard, one accredited lab report per lot.
5–8% fiber yieldChemical-free washing3 export grades
Available Grades
Three grades, one supply chain
Most suppliers blur grades to move volume. We separate at the mill so each bale matches its end use — and you never pay Textile-grade prices for Industrial-grade fiber.
Craft grade
Best for: weaving, baskets, décor, furniture webbing
Consistent medium strands with the natural golden sheen intact — the hand-feel grade for studios and artisan brands.
Industrial grade
Best for: rope, cordage, paper, composites
Shorter, cost-efficient strands with the same 500–900 MPa tensile core — where unit economics decide the project.
Key Benefits
Why buyers specify our banana fiber
The fundamentals mills and brands actually test for — stated as numbers, backed by per-lot lab reports.
Abaca-class strength, lower cost
500–900 MPa tensile — comparable to abaca — at a Bangladeshi cost point.
Washed without chemicals
Clean water only, preserving luster and keeping chemical-safety tests clean.
From waste, not farmland
Pseudostems after fruit harvest — zero dedicated arable land, fully biodegradable.
Per-lot lab verification
Every lot tested at an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited lab (Hohenstein); reports ship with documents.
Honest moisture, honest weight
Dried to 10–12% regain before baling — no mold in transit, no water sold as fiber.
Container-ready supply
~18–20 t per 40' HC from Chattogram, with export documents handled weekly.
Extraction Process
From pseudostem to export bale in five steps
The same checklist our fiber passes before baling — the same one your incoming-QA team can verify against the documents shipped with every lot.
01 Pseudostem collection
Stems are cut within days of fruit harvest, while the fiber is hydrated and strong — never from over-aged or storm-damaged plants.
02 Mechanical decortication
Fresh pseudostems pass through decorticators that strip the long strands — no chemical retting agents at any stage.
03 Washing and sun-drying
Strands are washed in clean water and dried to a controlled 10–12% moisture regain, protecting luster and bale weight.
04 Manual grading and baling
Trained sorters separate Textile, Craft, and Industrial grades strand by strand, then compress into 25, 50, or 100 kg bales.
05 Per-lot lab verification
Each lot is sampled for tensile strength and chemical safety at an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory before it ships.
Processing notes for every stage live on our process page — from farm-gate collection to container loading at Chattogram.
Use Cases
What buyers make with our banana fiber
Four established demand channels, one fiber — each with processing notes on our applications library.
Spinning & yarn
Long Textile-grade strands move to spinning — or via our cottonized banana fiber for ring, rotor, and vortex systems.
Rope & cordage
High tensile strength and low elongation make it a proven reinforcement for ropes, twines, and marine cordage.
Paper & specialty board
Industrial-grade fiber adds tear resistance to handmade, currency-grade, and archival papers and packaging boards.
Composites & non-wovens
A lightweight, biodegradable reinforcement for automotive trim, panels, insulation, and geotextiles.
From spinning parameters for mills to pulping guidance for paper makers — explore every use case on the applications page.
Quality & Testing
What “export-grade” means in practice
Every production lot is sampled for tensile strength and chemical safety at an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory (Hohenstein). The report ships with your export documents — your QA team reviews real numbers, not brochure claims.
- Moisture 10–12%
- Tensile-tested per lot
- Per-lot CoA + TDS
- Chemical-safety screened
If a lot misses the fineness, moisture, or cleanliness window, it is held at the mill — it does not ship. Consistency between lots is what keeps your production running.
Packaging & Export
Baled for the container, documented for customs
Compressed bales of 25, 50, or 100 kg — custom packaging for orders above 500 kg — loaded at Chattogram with a full document set.
- Container load
- ~18–20 t of compressed fiber per 40' HC
- Documents
- Phytosanitary certificate, Certificate of Origin, invoice, packing list, per-lot TDS
- Transit
- Sea ~24–35 days to Europe, ~28–40 days to the US; air 5–10 days via Dhaka
- Incoterms
- FOB Chattogram (Chittagong) or CIF worldwide
Trade Terms
The terms, published up front
Import planning needs numbers, not negotiations about numbers. This is how every banana fiber order runs.
Lead time
2–4 weeks
from order confirmation or L/C opening
Payment
T/T 30/70
or 100% irrevocable L/C at sight
Shipping
FOB / CIF
Chattogram · ~18–20 t per 40' HC
Samples
0.5–3 kg
by international courier, before you commit
Indicative price bands are published on our wholesale page — and the banana fiber price guide explains exactly what moves the cost per kg.
Complete Terms
Every term of trade, in one table
The four headline numbers above, plus everything a procurement team needs to plan an import: documents, lab reports, container loads, and transit times — published rather than negotiated.
Banana fiber — complete trade terms
- Minimum order (MOQ)
- 200 kg per grade
- Samples
- 0.5–3 kg shipped by international courier, before you commit to a container
- Lead time
- 2–4 weeks from order confirmation or L/C opening
- Payment terms
- T/T 30/70 or 100% irrevocable L/C at sight
- Incoterms
- FOB Chattogram (Chittagong) or CIF worldwide, by sea and air
- Shipping loads
- ~18–20 t of compressed fiber per 40' HC container
- Transit times
- Sea ~24–35 days to Europe, ~28–40 days to the US; air 5–10 days via Dhaka
- Export documents
- Phytosanitary certificate, Certificate of Origin, and a per-lot Technical Data Sheet (TDS)
- Lab reports
- Per-lot ISO/IEC 17025 accredited lab reports (Hohenstein) covering chemical safety and tensile strength
FAQ
Banana fiber buying questions, answered
The questions our sales team answers most — specifications, sampling, shipping, and sustainability.
Banana fiber is a natural bast fiber drawn from the pseudostem of the banana plant — the layered trunk that remains after fruit harvest. Our factory in Modhupur, Tangail decorticates fresh pseudostems mechanically and washes the strands without chemicals, then sun-dries and grades them. Fiber yield is roughly 5–8% of fresh pseudostem weight; the remaining biomass returns to the field as compost.
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