First day, 23rd of
October, Thursday
10:00-11:00 Opening of the conference
Michael Karus
nova-Institut
Germany
Short
history of EIHA
Michael Karus
nova-Institut
Germany
Hemp
cultivation, processing, and product lines in the European Union
10:50-11:15 Yohei Koike and Ikuhiro
Ichikawa
Japan Ecology
Production (JEP)
Japan
Introduction
of JEP
Tradition and perspectives of the hemp industry in Japan
11:15-11:40 Wei Xiao
Yunnan Industries
Hemp
China
Industrial
Hemp in China
11:40-12:00 Philip
Warner
Ecofibre Industries
Limited
Australia
Global
Hemp, The Australian Perspective
12:00-12:30 Jerzy Mankowski and Maria
Mackiewicz-Talarczyk
Institute of Natural
Fibres
Poland
Cultivation,
processing and utilization of industrial hemp in Poland
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Paolo Ranalli
ISCI
Italy
Advances
of hemp sector in Italy and its perspective
14:00-14:30 Cesare Tofani
FIBRANOVA
Italy
Controlled
retting of bast fibers on industrial scale: an Italian challenge for textiles
14:30-15:00 Pierre Bouloc
LCDA
France
The
French Network of Hemp
15:00-15:30 Ben Dronkers
HempFlax
The Netherlands
Hemp
in the Netherlands
15:30-15:50 Coffee break
15:50-16:20 John Hobson
Hemcore
UK
Growing
hemp in the UK
16:20-18:00 Roundtable
discussion: Hemp economy - the relevancy of EU subsidies
Participants:
Jackie Walsh, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Judith Kons, German Ministry of Agriculture
Pierre Bouloc, LCDA / EIHA
Ben Dronkers, HempFlax / EIHA
Michael Karus, nova-Institut / EIHA
François Desanlis, EIHA
John Hobson, Hemcore
Bernd Frank, BaFa
19:00-21:00 Dinner buffet
21:00-24:00 EIHA internal meeting (for
EIHA members only!)
Second day, 24th of October, Friday
9:00-9:30 Bernd Frank
Badische
Naturfaseraufbereitung (BaFa)
Germany
Recent
activities of BaFa
9:30-10:00 Volker Buske and H. Georg Goedecke
AGRO-DIENST
Germany
Recent
activities of AGRO-DIENST
10:00-10:30 François Desanlis
EIHA Coordinator
France
Future
European hemp institute
10:30-11:00 Jörg Müssig
Faserinstitut
Bremen (FIBRE)
Germany
EIHA's
classification of hemp fibre by colour grades
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-11:45 David Watson
Hortapharm
The Netherlands
International
Hemp Association (IHA) and its activities,
Journal of Industrial Hemp (JIH)
11:45-12:10 Michael Karus
nova-Institut
Germany
Natural
fibres in the automotive industry - a recent market overview
12:10-12:35 Sven Ortmann
nova-Institut
Germany
NF-PP
injection moulding - overview on the results of different round tests
12:35-13:35 Lunch
13:35-14:00 Marcel Toonen
Plant Research
International Wageningen
The Netherlands
Biotechnological
improvement of hemp fibre quality
14:00-14:25 Stefano Amaducci
Università Cattolica
Italy
The European
Project HEMP SYS: Design, Development and Up-Scaling of a Sustainable
Production System for HEMP Textiles: an Integrated Quality SYStems Approach
14:25-14:50 Boris Rutili
DAIFA
France
DAIFA
hemp project in the plastics, building and energy industry
14:50-15:15 Hans-Jörg Gusovius
Universität Cottbus
Germany
Results
of the test-run of the fibre-extraction pilot plant of the Institute of
Agricultural Engeneering Bornim as well as thoughts for an european project for
a related quality-management-system and corresponding test procedures
15:15-15:40 Martin Ernegg
Zellform
Austria
The
recent status of the ZELFO project
15:40 Coffee
break and official end of the conference
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