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Welcome to EarthHemp.com: INDUSTRY |
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Industry:
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Almost
any
product
that can
be made
from
wood,
cotton,
or
petroleum
(including
plastics)
can be
made
from
hemp.
There
are more
than
25,000
known
uses for
hemp.
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For
thousands
of years
virtually
all good
paints
and
varnishes
were
made
with
hemp
seed oil
and/or
linseed
oil.
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Hemp
stems
are 80%
hurds
(pulp
by-product
after
the hemp
fiber is
removed
from the
plant).
Hemp
hurds
are 77%
cellulose
- a
primary
chemical
feed
stock
(industrial
raw
material)
used in
the
production
of
chemicals,
plastics,
and
fibers.
Depending
on which
U.S.
agricultural
report
is
correct,
an acre
of full
grown
hemp
plants
can
sustainably
provide
from
four to
50 or
even 100
times
the
cellulose
found in
cornstalks,
kenaf,
or sugar
cane
(the
planet's
next
highest
annual
cellulose
plants).
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One acre
of hemp
produces
as much
cellulose
fiber
pulp as
4.1
acres of
trees,
making
hemp a
perfect
material
to
replace
trees
for
pressed
board,
particle
board,
and
concrete
construction
molds.
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Heating
and
compressing
plant
fibers
can
create
practical,
inexpensive,
fire-resistant
construction
materials
with
excellent
thermal
and
sound-insulating
qualities.
These
strong
plant
fiber
construction
materials
could
replace
dry wall
and wood
paneling.
William
B. Conde
of
Conde's
Redwood
Lumber,
Inc.
near
Eugene,
Oregon,
in
conjunction
with
Washington
State
University
(1991-1993),
has
demonstrated
the
superior
strength,
flexibility,
and
economy
of hemp
composite
building
materials
compared
to wood
fiber,
even as
beams.
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Isochanvre,
a
rediscovered
French
building
material
made
from
hemp
hurds
mixed
with
lime
petrifies
into a
mineral
state
and
lasts
for many
centuries.
Archeologists
have
found a
bridge
in the
south of
France
from the
Merovingian
period
(500-751
A.D.),
built
with
this
process.
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Hemp has
been
used
throughout
history
for
carpet
backing.
Hemp
fiber
has
potential
in the
manufacture
of
strong,
rot
resistant
carpeting
-
eliminating
the
poisonous
fumes of
burning
synthetic
materials
in a
house or
commercial
fire,
along
with
allergic
reactions
associated
with new
synthetic
carpeting.
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Plastic
plumbing
pipe
(PVC
pipes)
can be
manufactured
using
renewable
hemp
cellulose
as the
chemical
feed
stocks,
replacing
non-renewable
coal or
petroleum
based
chemical
feed
stocks.
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In 1941
Henry
Ford
built a
plastic
car made
of fiber
from
hemp and
wheat
straw.
Hemp
plastic
is
biodegradable,
synthetic
plastic
is not.
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