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Why hemp is set to revolutionize plastic in consumer products Vincent Cavalier | trifilon

It’s not the first place you’d expect to find industrial hemp: a plastic suitcase. But it’s only one product that the Swedish company Trifilon helps make with a high-tech biocomposite, which uses hemp fibers as a reinforcing agent. The largescale possibilities of its technology helped the startup win

the award for the 2018 Hemp Product Innovation of the year at the 16th European Industrial Hemp Association hosted by the Nova Institut. Hemp fibers may soon help make air conditioners, vacuums, light fixtures, vehicles, toys, mops, buckets, hangers, beach chairs….


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