Uses

Salago yields exquisite and lustrous fibers which are excellent material in the manufacture of specialty paper like currency paper, bank notes, checks, bond paper for legal documents, certificates and insurance policies requiring a certain degree of permanence, strength and durability. The fiber is also suitable for the manufacture of stencil paper, handmade paper and may provide a good supplement for long-fibered pulp as a reinforcing material for the manufacture of paper where short-fibered pulp is used.

Other industrial applications of salago fiber are for making Japanese sliding doors (shoji), kimono, and components for radio and microcomputers.