Technical description
mini sanitary napkin unit consists of three machines:
1.De-fiberation machine:
Wood pulp which is commercially available in sheet form can be de-fiberated on this low cost machine.The carbon alloy steeel blade in this machine that runs at 10000 rpm that de-fiberates the wood pulp to a required filament length of 1-1.5mm,instead of grinding. The capacity of the de-fiberation machine is 150 gms/min that yields to a volume of 1 cubic feet of de-fibred soft pulp. The machine runs on 1 hp single phase motor. The size of the machine is 36"*24"*30.
2.Core forming machine:
The purpose of the machine is to compress the de-fibred pulp into a required shape of the soft core of the napkin . It is a manual machine that does not utilise even a single unit of power. The machine size is 24"*24"*30"
3. Napkin finishing machine
Formed wood pulp cores on the core forming machine are then wrapped by a non woven fabric and is sealed by sensitive impulse sealing method. The power requirement os 40 wolts.The machine speed is 4-10 napkins/min. Nichrome alloy filament is used in the construction of the sealing pads. The machine size is 36"*30"*30"
Tangible benefits
Hygiene improvement among rural women economic development on rural women by providing direct and indirect employment to millions of rural women. The average income of women become Rs.2000-3500 per month . Most women use cloth during their menstruation days. This is because price is the biggest entry barrier. A pack of 10 sanitary napkins would cost Rs.30-40. Therefore. the average spending during the menstruation days would be around Rs.48, which is expensive by indian standards. Most indian women fashion up pads out of cotton cloth as a home made and inexpensive solution to the hygiene and comfort needs during periods. These home made cloth pads are washed and reused. They lack the absorbing and liquid retention capacity of sanitary napkin and hence may lack in hygiene and comfort. Studies levels that the practice of using cloth during periods associated with very hgh risk of cervical cancer. There are chances that 98 out of 100 people will develop this type of cancer and if controlled, spread to other parts of the body. Lack finance is the reason why the rural women opt for this mode of tackling those 4-5 days , even adolescent girls got affected by this unhygienic practice. The reason is that even that they know about the sanitary napkin the cost of the napkins manufactured by multinationals was not affordable. In this situation with this mini sanitary napkin unit, napkins can be manufactured on this low cost unit are easily saleable in rural areas. These will be a boon for women self help groups and women entrepreneurs in rural and urban areas also.
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The women enterpreneurs will be able to educate the rural women not to use cloth but instead use sanitary napkin. The low cost machine napkin units create employment for rural women. The napkins produced by these units are low in cost so affordable by rural, semi urban and even urban poor. The napkins produced and soldy by rural women are the unit run by women entrepreneurs, irrespective of area. They would be able to interact with local women. They can also teach the napkin usages and advantages .By this way they would be able to switch over from unhygienic cotton-cloth method to hygienic sanitary napkin. Thus for rural india, the social impact will be
1.The affordable cost of the sanitary pads replaces the use of unhygienic clothes during the menstruation periods by the rural and urban economically poor women.
2. Economic development by providing direct and indirect employment to a lot of poor women
New invention napkin does not affect any environment. Usually napkins produced by corporate never bother about the disposal. But the new invetion low cost napkin producers can teach the rural women on disposal methods as only wood pulp is being employed which has a distinctive property of being bio degradable .
Every new invention sanitary napkin making units produce 4000 packets of napkin consists of 8 napkins each for a single shift of eight hours everyday.
Manufacturing process in detail
Firstly de-fiberation of wood pulp is done on the difiberation machine. Secondly the de fibered wood pulp is measured on weighing scale. Thirdly the wood pulp is filled on a core block and pressed by core forming machine. After this, pressed cores are wrapped by non-woven fabric and sealed by using napkin finishing machine( sealing machine) . Then position sticker is pressed is pasted on the napkin and then packed.
Intensive training to manufacture napkins is given on filed.
