HempToday.net Hemp textile sector should shift focus to create consumer demand for high-quality goods Today’s production-driven U.S. hemp textile sector needs to be turned on its head, with the focus shifted to developing consumer demand for... Read more...
HempToday.net French project probes potential for supply chains in hemp textiles, building materials Stakeholders and local officials in south-central France say they are two weeks from harvesting trial hemp crops, holding out hope that the plant... Read more...
HempToday.net ‘Demand, innovation, investment needed to re-establish hemp textiles’ INTERVIEW: Dave Cook is co-founder and owner of Tuscarora Mills, Bedford, Pennsylvania, a manufacturer of flat woven textile fabrics made from... Read more...
HempToday.net Hemp fiber processing factory in France seen as weapon in fight against ‘fast fashion’ A French cooperative has opened a hemp fiber processing center in the Occitanie region, turning out “ecological and ethical” fibers for the... Read more...
HempToday.net Year in Review: Production capacity, awareness growing for products made from hemp fiber [Third in a series of the most popular stories on HempToday in 2023] Global fiber hemp production by volume is currently running at the same... Read more...
HempToday.net Region in Italy gets funding to support hemp fiber supply chain Italy’s northern region of Emilia-Romagna has provided €500,000 in financing for the development of a local industrial hemp supply chain focused... Read more...
HempToday.net Sustainability benefits can be lost if hemp textile production follows conventional ag While hemp production for textiles is at a “watershed moment,” hemp won’t bring promised sustainability without attention to how crops are grown,... Read more...
HempToday.net Ahead for the industry: Fiber and food, sure, but hemp will be relegated to a ‘specialty crop’ [Last of three parts] Despite the cloud that has descended over U.S. Hemp, a dwindled number of hearty survivors are sticking around, turning... Read more...
