Producción y comercialización de la fibra de luffa cylindrica como materia prima para fibrocemento y elementos de la construcción liviana en seco

Abstract

At present the development of construction in Colombia is one of the most relevant aspects and with the greatest influence on GDP (gross domestic product), it is expected that its growth will occur gradually but in a good percentage. That is why ensuring materials and construction processes of higher quality and with new technology, which allows to provide friendly solutions to the environment is one of the pillars for this branch. In the matter of incursion in new materials that replace the fiber cement, for having this characteristics harmful to human health, is known the growing study of vegetable fibers for applications in fiber cement or similar, among which is also the natural fiber Luffa Cylindrical ( LFC). In order to determine the financial behavior of an LFC marketing project for the construction sector in Colombia and based on information provided by fiber research projects, statistical production data and other information of interest, market studies were prepared , technical and financial, which allowed to determine what to produce CFL in a strategic sector such as Valle del Cauca, for a medium and large producer and according to the characteristics of the target market analyzed, in a project with a useful life of 5 years viable scenarios in which the IRR is greater than the opportunity rate of the investor and the NPV, greater than 0, will correspond to those that are financed from 12% of the initial investment. In this way, it is established that the LFC has high potential from the technical and financial point of view for medium and large producers, providing additional information to promote the continuity of the study of the new material from other aspects of analysis.