The old machine that is used to mix the fiber is an oval tank. Inside the tank is divided lengthwise into half and its paddle is flat and long like a file and it is installed on one side of the tank only so the flow of the fiber in the tank is not so good. There must be a person using a paddle to stir the fiber to flow inside the tank. Apart from that there was an issue that the fiber often sticks to the paddle because it is flat. The new machine is designed to have 8 circular saw blades sized Ø 10 inch to mix the leaf fiber so that it does not stick to the paddle. Apart from that the paddle is installed on both side of the tank increasing from the old machine that has only on one side in order to solve the problem about the flow of the fiber. One more issue is about bringing the fibber out from the tank. When the valve is opened the fiber cannot flow out easily because the bottom of the tank is flat. The researcher therefore design the tank to be adjustable so that it is easier to pour the fiber out from the tank. According to the experiment the boiled pineapple leaf blender can blend the boiled pineapple leaf with 30 kilograms water. The suitable speed of the blade is 500 times per minute and each blending process takes approximately 5 minutes. The time using for leaf blending also based on the paper usage e.g. for the smooth surface paper its production can follow the normal process but for the paper with rough texture the time using for fiber blending will be less.

Currently the pineapple leaf paper that is produced by using local wisdom is 50 centimeters wide and 64 centimeters long. Therefore the product of the Cooperative is small. And because the size of the paper is limited they cannot be used for producing room divider big umbrella or big painting as per customer’s demand and the members of the cooperative cannot produce large sheet of paper. The researchers therefore designed the Pineapple fibrous leaf sieving Equipment in order to produce large sheet of paper. The equipment consists of a square basin for washing leaf fiber sized 185 centimeters 10 centimeter deep with a 90-centimeter high stand to support the basin and installed the mechanism to lift up the sieve that is used to take up the pineapple leaf fiber. The sieve is 150 centimeters x 150 centimeters which is the largest size possible because the leaf fiber washing must is done by hand. If the sieve is bigger we will not be able to reach to the leaf fiber in the center. Base on the experiment of pineapple leaf paper production by using the new equipment as compared to the paper production as per local wisdom by using 2.5 kilograms pineapple leaf fiber and the paper thickness shall be fixed at 0.35 millimeters it is found that the production that use pineapple fibrous leaf sieving equipment takes 647 second on average and the production as per local wisdom takes 1421 second on average. In other words the equipment can help to reduce the time in paper production of 774 second or 54 %. Apart from that the researcher produced the paper with different thickness by increasing the pineapple leaf fiber by 0.5 kilograms per one sheet of paper so that there are more options to choose in order to match with various products. The amount of leaf fiber used in the production starts from 3 kilograms to 7.5 kilogram per sheet and the thickness of the paper is from 0.36 millimeters and the thickest paper is 1.2 millimeters thick using approximately 7.5 kilograms of leaf fiber. If we use more leaf fiber for paper production the paper will be overweight and it will be sagging.