{"id":13779,"date":"2004-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20040514-05n"},"modified":"2004-05-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-13T22:00:00","slug":"hemp-factory-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/hemp-factory-closer-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemp factory closer to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Canada \u2014 Proponents of a hemp-processing factory in Dauphin met with provincial officials Monday to present an updated business plan and secure financial backing.<\/p>\n<p>The Parkland BioFibre hemp factory would process locally grown hemp straw into fibre products.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve identified the markets for both the bast [long] fibre and the hurd [short fibres],\u201d says spokesman Don Dewar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have prospective customers. One is a major supplier of hurds into the bedding market in Europe. It\u2019s a French company, but it has a Canadian office and is looking at supplying the hurds into North America. The other is a company that recycles cardboard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dewar says the plant would create 20 jobs and bring in $4 million a year for local hemp farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Dewar and the Parkland Industrial Hemp Growers co-op want the provincial and federal government to kick in about $6 million, which would be paid back. Dewar says the provincial government is on board, but the federal government has no yet committed; he hopes to meet with officials from both levels of government within the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Dewar says they will not solicit investment from the general public until they develop a market and get support from governments and banks.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2004, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Canada &mdash; Proponents of a hemp-processing factory in Dauphin met with provincial officials Monday to present an updated business plan and secure financial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13779"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}