{"id":4559,"date":"2023-02-22T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havenearth.biz\/2023\/02\/22\/hempitecture-opens-idaho-nonwoven-facility\/"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T19:24:16","slug":"hempitecture-opens-idaho-nonwoven-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havenearth.biz\/2023\/02\/22\/hempitecture-opens-idaho-nonwoven-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Hempitecture Opens Idaho Nonwoven Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hempitecture, Inc. co-founders (holding giant scissors) [L ] Mattie Mead and [R] Tommy Gibbons celebrate the opening of their Jerome, ID nonwovens facility on Feb. 17, 2023. Photo courtesy of Hempitecture.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Idaho-based Hempitecture, Inc., hosted the grand opening of their non-woven hemp-based insulation materials factory last week in Jerome, ID with confetti, a ribbon-cutting and celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leaders in the US hemp building materials industry, co-founders Mattie Mead and Tommy Gibbons \u2013 high school friends from New Jersey \u2013 have said they have long dreamed of manufacturing building materials out of healthy, carbon-capturing natural fibers grown in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis truly marks the beginning of a new chapter for the industrial hemp industry,\u201d said co-founder Mead in a press release. \u201cNot just in Idaho, but in the United States as a whole, given this new outlet for using industrial hemp and raw materials for high-performance, sustainable product alternatives. We are also just so proud to be a contributor to the agricultural growth here in Idaho and the West Rocky Mountains,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Hempitecture\u2019s new 33,000 sq. ft. facility, powered by renewable energy in Jerome, ID. Photo courtesy of Hempitecture, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new 33,000 sq.foot facility<\/span><\/a> running on renewable energy in Jerome will produce multiple biobased nonwoven products to be used across various industries, including the manufacturing of Hempitecture\u2019s flagship product, HempWool\u00ae thermal insulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company partnered with IND HEMP<\/span><\/a> in Montana to source US grown industrial hemp. The facility has also received support from the Idaho Department of Commerce, Southern Idaho Economic Development, and other local and regional stakeholders. The facility is \u201cset to be a part of rural economic development for both Montana and Idaho,\u201d the company said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Jerome facility is the culmination of a long journey that started with the partners exploring hemp-lime \u201chempcrete\u201d building and then pivoting to fiber-based batt insulation, initially\u00a0 imported from Canadian manufacturers in Quebec.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In April 2022, Hempitecture, a public benefit corporation, raised nearly $4.7 m<\/span><\/a>illion in funding backed by more than 1,800 individual crowd funders on the Wefunder platform<\/span><\/a> to invest in the new facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company has also participated in the US Department of Energy\u2019s IMPEL bio-materials incubator, as well as obtaining a two-year fellowship<\/span><\/a> with the DOE\u2019s Innovation Crossroads program at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Mead also was recently awarded $500,000<\/span><\/a> (2nd place) at Grow NY\u2019s Food and Agriculture business competition.<\/p>\n

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