Tag: Natural Materials
From tapper to mill, the plot disappears: how natural rubber gets its paper trail back
Eighty-five percent of the world's natural rubber is tapped by smallholders, one tree at a time, and new EU rules now require every buyer to prove which plot the cut...
Hemp powder and biopolymers: the result is fabric
Napee, based in Pesaro, has developed a fabric for clothing and automotive applications by combining hemp-processing waste with organically derived polyols
The SPARE project relaunches hemp in the EU for prefabricated and biobased materials
Prefabricated panels, composites and road signs: the European model aiming to make industrial hemp a competitive construction material, from cultivation to on-site assembly
EIHA and the Green Deal: hemp as a driver of Europe’s bioeconomy
An alliance between farmers, businesses and institutions: the European Industrial Hemp Association – EIHA – positions hemp as a strategic resource for the Green Deal and European production sovereignty
Industrial hemp in Italy: a sustainable economy in a regulatory maze
Italy’s new industrial hemp laws redefine the plant’s limits and uses, amid demands for control, legal uncertainty and a sector that continues to call for clarity
What is ethical entrepreneurship? Definition and meaning for contemporary work
EEthical entrepreneurship: generating profit for owners and workers, while benefiting the community and territory where a company grows – hemp offers a new opportunity
Dolomiti Canapa and Canapalpino: mountain-grown hemp seeds for food
Hours of drying and cold pressing to preserve their properties: hemp from Dolomiti Canapa and Canapalpino, companies operating at around 400 meters above sea level
Hemp: reflections with author Paolo Ranalli
The paradox of hemp in Italy is that of a plant that was once a national excellence but failed to enter the modern market. At the beginning of the twentieth...
Industrial hemp in Puglia: how Canapuglia is rebuilding its supply chain
With a new 2,000-square-metre site and two processing lines, Canapuglia aims to close the gap between fields, facilities and markets in the hemp supply chain
Textile hemp and industry: why cottonization remains on hold
The point where fiber stops short of industry: in Italy, hemp cottonization remains an interrupted stage – a technical step linked to spinning that exists only in academic studies and...
Hemp, a leading sustainable and zero-waste material
From agriculture and construction sites to urban regeneration, the hemp supply chain reveals both potential and structural gaps: an updated assessment based on observations gathered by ANAB
Textile hemp in Italy: a broken supply chain between research and a lack of vision
Giampaolo Grassi retraces thirty years of hemp research in Italy: a supply chain caught between experimentation, missing processing plants and the absence of an industrial policy
Remediating soil with industrial hemp: how Green Valley turns waste into renewal
In Roccasecca, southern Lazio, Green Valley uses industrial hemp to remediate contaminated land and restore agriculture’s role in environmental regeneration
