Sales are not easy. Although it performs well on web presses, copiers and laser printers and looks like any other fine creamy paper, kenaf copy and offset papers are often more expensive than both recycled and virgin equivalents. However, the prices are becoming much more competitive these days. When demand goes up, costs will come down. In addition to saving forests, growing kenaf requires little or no pesticides and can revitalize depressed rural areas with new agricultural industry.
Many customers agree.
Earth Island Journal frequently uses kenaf paper for both its publication and office use. Actually, several years ago he read about U.S. government research into kenaf paper. When you discover an idea that strikes you as very possible with both an environmental and entrepreneurial spirit, you look for the fatal flaw. I could not find it. Kenaf pulp cannot easily be made in a wood-pulping mill, but many paper mills could buy the pulp as a feedstock for their paper machines.