Скачать или смотреть Molded Fiber - Industrial Hemp - What Can you Do With It?

In the first of a new series 'Industrial Hemp- What Can you Do with It' IND HEMP Chief Strategy Officer Trey Riddle speaks to some testing that had been done for using industrial hemp bast fiber for integration into molded fiber systems.

Molded fiber systems are currently a leading process for 'to go' food containers, egg containers and are a growing sector for replacing styrofoam as protective packaging in many product applications from sporting goods to electronics.

Sustainable packaging and specifically food take out containers are a sector that needs continuous help and development, as the demands increase with our population and lifestyles and there is simply no room in our landfills for these waste issues.

While this is a new development, and in the early stages, it shows that industrial hemp, which is the leading carbon sequestering agricultural crop, and able to produce fiber and cellulosic biomass in a 100 day growing cycle in an agricultural crop rotation- vswood fiber which takes 20-40 years for trees to grow to harvestability.