Making combined materials that consist of unsaturated polyester and coconut fiber is the target of this research. The samples were tested by tensile and hardness tests before and after warm-up, and obtained by the result was that the trend value of hardness of unsaturated polyester+coconut fiber experienced proportional degradation with the addition of the composition of coconut fiber. The composition of 3% coconut fiber+97% unsaturated polyester has the highest hardness value, reaching 46,7 kg/mm2, and downhill becomes 43,1 kgf/mm2 moment heated at a temperature of 500C for 1 hour. Analog to the tensile test, 3% coconut fiber + 97% unsaturated polyester composition has the highest ultimate tensile strength and yield point. Adding fiber can boost the elasticity modulus, but the warm-up treatment causes the expansion of coconut fiber. The result is that the value of the tensile and hardness of the polyblend will go downhill.
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