U.S. Industrial Hemp Leaders United to Form Working Group.
It reflects a shared commitment to enhance coordination, transparency, and efficiency across key hemp industry segments.
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.
It reflects a shared commitment to enhance coordination, transparency, and efficiency across key hemp industry segments.
From car door panels to carpet padding, nonwovens are everywhere — mostly made from plastics. But they don’t have to be.

Hemp Industry Working Group Addresses 2025 Legislative and Policy Challenges

It reflects a shared commitment to enhance coordination, transparency, and efficiency across key hemp industry segments.

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.

IDEA25 is an industry gathering to discuss the future of nonwoven materials, their applications, and more.