Malunggay (Moringa oleifera) bark can be used as a substitute for wood in paper making. The bark is stripped from the stems and dried before being boiled and pounded into pulp. This pulp is bleached, molded, and dried to produce paper. Tests found the malunggay paper has a rough texture and lower quality than standard paper but can still be made and sold commercially given its lower production costs. Malunggay is a good alternative source for paper making due to its easy propagation and low resource demands.

1. ( “The Recycled Wood Bark of Malunggay
(Moringa Oleifera) as Handmade Paper”)

2. HOW TO MAKE USE OF
MALUNGGAY BARK AS A
SUBSTITUTE FOR NORMAL
WOOD TO BE USE IN PAPER
MAKING?

3.  The significance of this topic , The relative
ease of malunggay and malunggay paper
with which it propagates through both
sexual and asexual means and its low
demand for soil nutrients and water after
being planted makes its production and
management easy .It can be substituted to
some other papers that is more expensive ,
but we should also consider the quality of
the paper.

4. 1. The malunggay are removed from its stems
MALUNGGAY
BARK

5. 2. The barks are stripped off and dried.
Stripped malunggay barks
3. The dried barks is boiled in caustic soda for 2-3
hours

6. 4. The barks where than pounded to produce
wood pulps.
5. The wood pulps were then bleached

7. 6. Soak in water for 5-15 min. to make it
whiter
7. Mold the wood pulp using the mold and
deckle
8. To dry place it on an even surface or screen.

8.  The investigators successfully made the
malunggay paper as it seems the product
turns out to have a rough texture . There is a
natural design but if you compare it to other
kinds of paper the quality is somewhat low .

9.  It is possible to make paper from malunggay
and be able to sell it in the market but you
should expect that the quality would be
lower than the standard type ones that you
just buy from the store , yes it is cheaper but
as said above the quality isn’t that great .