Nonwovens & The Goodness of Hemp with Mattie Mead of Hempitecture.
From car door panels to carpet padding, nonwovens are everywhere — mostly made from plastics. But they don’t have to be.
This is where you will find industrial hemp in the news, postings and links of informative papers and articles, and alerts for conferences, events and gatherings where HEMI will be.
From car door panels to carpet padding, nonwovens are everywhere — mostly made from plastics. But they don’t have to be.
Read this detailed assessment and roadmap of the hemp industry today and its future potential.
Hemp Industry Working Group Addresses 2025 Legislative and Policy Challenges

This podcast talks with Jason Finnis of Bast Fiber Technologies, and working to help hemp fiber replace plastics in nonwovens.
Our guest is Jason Finnis, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Bast Fiber Technologies, a clean-tech fiber company with operations in North Carolina and Germany. Jason’s been working to bring hemp fiber into hygiene and personal care products for more than 30 years — not as a novelty, but as a high-performance alternative to synthetic materials.

From car door panels to carpet padding, nonwovens are everywhere — mostly made from plastics. But they don’t have to be.