From a bale of hemp straw to a hackeld sliver of long fibers

HEMP-ACT is commited to offer you breakthrough solutions to extract and market profitable long textile hemp fibres...But not only !

At the end of 2023, we confirmed the technical and economic performance of our tools at the ADD-ITC conference. These encouraging results are directly linked to the process shortcuts that we implemented.

During the months of December and January, we continued a series of tests to finalize our line design in search of the best service provided to our customers. Our process and our tools have been designed so that our customers can:

• extract high added value from their textile fibers

• be equipped with the capacity to transform and add value to all the qualities of straw that their supplying farmers could deliver to them.

• market textile fibers and reinforcement of profitable bio-composites while being ultra competitive, a sine qua non condition for their massive industrial appropriation

We are thus finalizing our unique 2in1 decorticating and combing/hackling solution by integrating into our next decorticating line HD1300TEXTILE_00:

• finer cleaning of the fibers to eliminate the last hemp,

• hackling/combing the fibers to improve their parallelization and to refine the fiber bundles

• packaging of the long and textile fibres in a sliver packaged in a roll , or in bulk in textile bales.

These last equipements, thought out for a long time, will integrate the new version of our specifications “Manufacturing HD1300 TEXTILE_00”. Our next decorticating line will thus produce long fibers in sliver or in bulk, and if necessary short and technical fibers, with little additional equipment. Our customers will thus get the best value from all their materials on their targeted markets.

Beyond hemp, a multiple range of bioresources in search of solutions

The experimental work carried out in recent weeks, where we tested new tools, also revealed the adaptation of our solutions to multiple plant raw materials which are looking for textile or material valorizations throughout the world.

The tools we tested confirmed:

• their potential for extracting bast fibers,

• but also their ability to process plants with low fiber content, shredding them and thus opening up the possibility of up-grading them into materials via non-woven processes.

The deposits of these materials, spread across the world, are gigantic and there is an urgent need to valorize them in order to boost local economies and to adapt to the effects of climate change, as well as to reduce its effects.

The origin of these bioresources that will have to be treated is diverse and comes from 3 major groups:

• Co-products from harvests : oilseed flax, rice, palm tree, pineapple, abaca, etc.

• invasive plants: water hyacinth, typha, etc.

• Plants from marginal, uncultivated land: broom, nettle, etc.

We listen to your needs and your projects to move forward together in the valorization of your specific bioresources. Contact us !

BACK TO THE BASICS

At the start of the 21st century, humanity is facing multiple crises, on a scale never known before. Almost all of these crises come from an increase in the rate of CO2 in the atmosphere and a release of pollutants that planet Earth can no longer support..

The fashion industry is said to be the second most polluting industry in the world. As much as the attractiveness of big brands is almost magical, it is the responsibility of these brands and of the fashion industry to renew themselves and to take very seriously into account the environmental, social and North/South equity issues.

After decades of banishment, hemp returns to the front of the stage thanks to these multiple assets:

• hemp grows in almost all latitudes

• growing hemp consumes three times less water than corn or cotton

• Hemp growing regenerates the soil

• hemp is grown without pesticides and it smothers weeds

• hemp feeds us with its seeds, dresses us with its fibers from the bark and lodges us with hemp shivs (from its wood)

• hemp co-products are sequestering 15ton eqCO2/ha/year

Hemp today represents only 0.02% of textile fibers, we 'll make it a mainstream textile fibre by 2050, representing 10% of th total amount of processed textile fibres, to be grown on more than one hundred Million of hectares over the world

HEMP-ACT : the solution to make hemp a mainstream fibre in a renewed fashion industry.

HEMP-ACT has developed a new process for the transformation of hemp straw with the aim of increasing the use of hemp around the world. Our goal: to have hemp reach at 20 % share of the global textile market by 2050. 100 millions of hectares for 30 millions tons of fabrics.

YES! HEMP IS BECOMING THE STAR of textile fibers for decades to come within a fashion industry that is reinventing and transforming itself to both adapt to climate change and to reduce its environmental impacts.

Hemp is a fiber that supports an economy of ecosystem regeneration and whose production in a multitude of local sectors will promote the autonomy and resilience of these territories while remaining connected to the global economy.

Hemp is a pleasant material to wear, very resistant, breathable which brings real comfort both in warm periods, and in cold climates. It is a fiber of character that gives each fabric a unique touch, feeling and texture.

HEMP-ACT has developed a cutting-edge decorticating line which allows the extraction of long hemp textile fibers which can thus be used in all the spinning mills in the world: wet or dry spinning such as linen spinning, worsted spinning, or ring spinning or open end spinning.

We have designed a simple, effective, easy to use and energy efficient process. We gave it a measured dimension to keep it affordable so that it will be massively and very quickly adopted by tens, then hundreds and thousands of local industries around the world.

Machines without the know-how would be nothing, so we provide you, our customers, with all the training and support dedicated to make your project profitable, and we are offering you decortication as a service for your FR&D needs and to initiate your markets.

We are open to enter new partners and investors

Finally, in preparation for marketing our mass-produced lines, we are strengthening our company and will be carrying out a capital increase in the next few months. If you would like to take part in this fund-raising, or better still, become a key partner in a company that is set for tremendous growth, now is the moment to invest in HEMP-ACT.