{"id":4090,"date":"2022-06-13T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havenearth.biz\/2022\/06\/13\/prefab-hemp-home-kit-company-from-netherlands-to-open-branches-in-indiana-us-west\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T21:00:11","slug":"prefab-hemp-home-kit-company-from-netherlands-to-open-branches-in-indiana-us-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havenearth.biz\/2022\/06\/13\/prefab-hemp-home-kit-company-from-netherlands-to-open-branches-in-indiana-us-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Prefab Hemp Home Kit Company from Netherlands to Open Branches in Indiana, US West"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The hempcrete-insulated walls and roof in a prefab hemp panel home from a Dun Agro kit can be built with cranes within 3 days. Photo screenshot courtesy of Dun Agro Hemp Group.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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By Jean Lotus<\/em><\/p>\n

Europe’s leading prefab hemp building company, which has built more than 65 specialty low-carbon homes, will stake a claim in the United States market with a large-scale hemp processing facility and headquarters in south-central Indiana. A second location is planned on tribal lands in the western United States.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The US corporate branch of Dun Agro Hemp Group<\/span><\/a>, will seek to replicate the sustainable vertically integrated 28-year hemp operation in Oude Pekela, Holland, which grows, harvests and processes industrial hemp for fiber applications and seed, founder and CEO Albert Dun told Hemp Build Mag.
Dun Agro\u2019s prefab home panels include walls, ceiling, roof and flooring. Dun Agro\u2019s prefab home kits<\/span><\/a> are made of hemp + lime (hempcrete) panels from hemp grown around their Dutch facility. The natural building materials in each prefab home sequester about 14.5 tons of carbon in a 1,300 sq. foot house, the company said.<\/p>\n

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A Dun Agro hemp home in the Netherlands built from prefab panels. Photo courtesy Dun Agro Hemp Group<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although the company hasn\u2019t revealed the exact location, Niki Vandenburgh, Co-CEO and COO of Dun Agro Hemp Group, Inc., said the new US headquarters would be located \u201cin south-central Indiana.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the upcoming years, Dun Agro\u2019s processing facility will organize with regional farmers to grow about 15,000-25,000 acres of industrial hemp varieties specially developed for non woven and textile fibers, Dun said. The facility, scheduled to open \u201clate 2023,\u201d will process hemp stalks at 11- 13 tons per hour, using proprietary technology, Dun said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDun Agro\u2019s move is an exciting affirmation that fiber industrial hemp based building products are growing in popularity here in the United States,\u201d said Cameron McInstosh, founder of Pennsylvania-based Americhanvre Cast Hemp<\/span><\/a> in a text.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is great to hear about this development,\u201d said Jake Waddell, president of the US Hemp Building Association in a message. \u201cThe potential of hemp building in this country is huge and Dun Agro\u2019s decision to enter the market shows the world is taking notice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dun Agro\u2019s solar-powered complex in Oude Pekela, Holland. Photo courtesy Dun Agro Hemp Group<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new Dun Agro factory will be modeled on the Dutch low-energy facility that gets most of its power through solar energy. Dun said the new factory would provide economic opportunity to farmers and create jobs. In Holland, the company contracts with 71 growers to cultivate 3,200 acres, according to Dutch magazine Trouw<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Along with custom hempcrete construction panels, Dun Agro processes hemp into raw materials used in car parts, textiles, and animal bedding. In Europe, the company processes hemp for animal feed and other consumable products including CBD products and hemp flower tea. Dun Agro has developed specialized hemp harvest equipment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important thing is that we have our own chain, our own system from harvesting to processing, producing finished materials ready for consumers,\u201d Dun said.<\/p>\n

The US hemp industry is facing a \u201clearning curve\u201d because American agriculture\u00a0producers are \u201cused to working with commodities,\u201d and not producing the high-profit value-added finished goods, he added.<\/p>\n

Dun Agro\u2019s European prefab hempcrete home panel kits are erected by construction cranes<\/span><\/a> in about three days. For the American market, the home designs will be \u201ca little bit bigger, because Americans like bigger houses,\u201d Dun said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Owners stand in front of a pre-fab hempcrete house constructed by Dun Agro. Photo Courtesy Dun Agro Hemp Group<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two showcase homes will be built in the United States from kits shipped from the Netherlands, Dun said. One will be located at the Indiana site and another \u201cnear a big city\u201d where the house can be a destination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company will also make general structural insulated panels (SIPs) with hempcrete insulation. Dun Agro is currently working on a seven-story structure in the Netherlands, Vanderburgh said.<\/p>\n

The west-coast facility will move more slowly with a few trial crops growing this year through tribal partnerships that the company is not yet naming, Vandenburgh said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDun Agro\u2019s goal is to replicate the facility across the country in multiple locations,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dun observed that the expansion to the United States would likely be challenging. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut you solve the problem by finding a solution. When you want to find a solution, you do it. Dun Agro is strong in finding solutions,\u201d Dun said.<\/p>\n

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Albert Dun, founder and CEO of Dun Agro. Courtesy of Hemp Today.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jean Lotus is editor\/publisher of HempBuild Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

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