Replies to post #71503 on Hemp Inc (HEMP)

[Det_Robert_Thorne]

None of HEMP's "products" made with shredded kenaf

1) the end result of kenaf through shedder should be good for their kenaf based product.

Take a look at the products that HEMP says it can make from its kenaf:

http://ihempman.com/products.html

Once you shred the kenaf, you don't have any long-strand fiber to sell.

According to this old Biotech Mills presentation (they owned the plant's machinery before they went bankrupt), 35% of the weight of the kenaf stalk is bast fiber (hemp is probably similar).

https://www.slideshare.net/akimkatsu/biotech-mills-presentation

Drillwall is made from kenaf core plus other ingredients (in videos, Perlowin has mentioned bentonite clay). Adding shredded and milled bast fiber will likely make it less effective per unit volume.

Spillsuck is supposed to be made from kenaf core, and just as with Drillwall, if it's 35% non-absorbent bast fiber, it won't work as well as stuff from only the core material.

All of these products could be made with hemp core, but since kenaf core is supposed to be even more absorbent than hemp core, the mixes will probably be changed a bit.

2) they good be calibrating the decorticator to hemp, and not be using it for kenaf.

While some of the decortication machinery was modified by Temafa to process kenaf and will have to be reconfigured to work with hemp, the big issue is that to process anything, the wiring and ductwork have to be completed, and there has been no visible progress in about a year.

Secondly, they still need to reassemble the MacTavish line.


IMO, this shredder/mill arrangement is another one of Bruce's Potemkin Village projects, because it will look like HEMP is doing something, but they won't be able to sell the products.

The only possible use might be in kenaf-crete, and they'll practically give it away.