Programme
1st Day 22 May 2013 (10 am - 6 pm)
Session: Country reports
Chairman: Sylvestre Bertucelli (Interchanvre, France)
10:00 John Hobson (Hemp Technology Ltd., Great Britain):
European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA): Status and Outlook
10:20 Michael Carus (nova-Institut GmbH, Germany):
Market data on hemp - Survey on industrial hemp production in Europe
10:50 Anndrea Hermann (The Ridge International Cannabis Consulting, Canada):
Oregon State University Offers World’s First Course on Industrial Hemp
11:10 Dr. Sofia Jankauskiene (Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania): Current situation on industrial hemp in Lithuania
11:40 Mark Reinders (HempFlax BV, The Netherlands): Reintroducing hemp in Rumania
Session: Hemp textiles
Chairman: Sylvestre Bertucelli (Interchanvre, France)
12:10 Daniel Kruse (Hempro Int. GmbH & Co. KG, Germany):
Hemp as textile
12:30 Lunch Break
Session: Hemp seeds and oil for food
Chairman: Dr. Stephan Piotrowski (nova-Institut GmbH, Germany)
13:30 John Roulac (Nutiva, USA):
Superfood trends
14:00 Boris Banas (HEMP SEED OIL EUROPE LTD., Slovakia):
Changes of fats in germinating hemp
14:30 Daniel Kruse (Hempro Int. GmbH & Co. KG, Germany):
New data on hemp food market
Session: Hemp building & insulation material
Chairman: John Hobson (Hemp Technology Ltd., Great Britain)
15:00 Jorgen Hempel (Hemp Eco Systems SA, Switzerland):
The new world of building and insulating with hemp
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Chris de Visser (WUR, The Netherlands):
Grow2Build - a north west European interreg project to support hemp and flax based value chains for building materials
16:30 Monika Brümmer (Cannabric, Spain): Load-bearing hempbuilding in south European climate
Session: Bio-Composites
Chairman: Mark Reinders (HempFlax BV, The Netherlands)
17:00 Hendrick Buddenberg (TU Muenchen, Germany):
Utilization of natural fibers in non-flammable fiber reinforced composites
17:30 Jovana Dzalto (Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany):
NATEX & Bio-Build: Natural aligned fibers and textiles for structural applications in the building sector
20:00 Dinner Buffet
2nd Day, 23 May 2013 (9 am - 5.30 pm)
Session: Bio-Composites
Chairman: Mark Reinders (HempFlax BV, The Netherlands)
9:00 Cyrille Boinay (Bcomp, Switzerland):
Negation disadvantages of natural fibres
9:30 Willem Böttger (NPSP Composieten BV, The Netherlands):
Natural fibre reinforced composite façade solutions
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Dr. Efi Alexopoulou (CRES, Greece):
FP7 EU Project "Fibra"
11:00 Angela Wiegand (Angela Wiegand-Design, Germany):
Light weight hemp-chair - sustainable chair made of PLA and hemp fleece
11:30 Prof. Dr. Jörg Müssig & N. Graupner (University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Germany):
Injection moulded hemp fibre-reinforced thermoplastics
12:00 Dr. Benedicte Goffin (certech, Belgium): Development of polymer-hemp composites. PolyChanvre, a crossborder project between France and Belgium
12:30 - 13.30 Lunch Break
Session: Agriculture & Fibre decortication
Chairman: Bernd Frank (BaFa Neu GmbH, Germany)
13:30 Sarah Mennuni (FRD – Fibres Recherche Développement, France):
Effect of crop conditions on hemp fibres quality with use in materials
14:00 Thierry Masi (LAROCHE, France):
Latest LAROCHE innovations for the process of hemp straw up to cleaned hemp fibre and cleaned shives
14:30 Adrian Francis K. Clarke (Textiles and Composite Industries Pty Ltd, Australia): New generation of decorticators: decorticating without retting
15:00 Coffee Break
Session: Multihemp
Chairman: Dr. Stefano Amaducci (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Institut of Agronomy and Field Crops, Italy)
15:30 - 17:30 Dr. Stefano Amaducci (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Institut of Agronomy and Field Crops, Italy): FP7 EU Project "Multihemp":
1) Michael Carus (nova-Institut GmbH, Germany): Disseminating hemp value to strengthen its production chains (to stimulate a stakeholder discussion on what is needed to strengthen hemp image for commercialization and to increase economic value)
2) Prof. Dr. Jörg Müssig (University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Germany): Hemp fibre quality: what does the industry need?
3) Prof. Simon McQueen-Mason (University of York, Great Britain): Hemp oil and secondary metabolites: improvements and perspectives.
4) Dr. Hans-Jörg Gusovious (Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering, Germany): State of the art and perspective of hemp mechanization: where do we need to go?
5) Dr. Luisa Trindade (Wageningen University, The Netherlands): Breeding: hemp varieties for the future.
