Final program of the First International Conference of the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA)

 

 

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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