Manufacturing on a small-scale is an important livelihood for many people in the developing world. Businesses are usually run by a family or a small group within the same community.
These technical briefs below provide the technical knowledge from Practical Action’s international projects on small scale manufacturing.
The properties of natural dyes and the different methods of dying including vat dying and batik....
Equipment and techniques needed to make paper based products with instructions on how to make a child's chair....
The benefits of recycling; comparing properties of different plastics that can be recycled; details of the recycling pro...
Different types of rubber and their uses together with the benefits of reusing or reclaiming rubber and examples of succ...