{"id":159019,"date":"2025-03-05T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=159019"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:22:28","slug":"inca-renewtech-earns-grant-to-complete-biocomposites-development-conduct-consumer-line-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/inca-renewtech-earns-grant-to-complete-biocomposites-development-conduct-consumer-line-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"INCA Renewtech earns grant to complete biocomposites development, conduct consumer line trials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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INCA Renewable Technologies\u00a0(INCA Renewtech, Kelowna, BC, Canada) announces\u00a0that it has been approved for a $202,534 grant from Alberta Innovates Agri-food and Bioindustrial Innovation Program to complete development of the company\u2019s novel hemp-based biocomposites and conduct line trials at Toyota (Saline, Mich., U.S.)\u00a0and other automotive Tier 1 suppliers. The funding is part of the Government of Alberta\u2019s commitment to expand support of agricultural products for food as well as feedstock for industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis funding from Alberta Innovates will enable us to refine hemp fiber at the Innotech Alberta laboratory, to produce several thousand pounds of INCA BioPlastics\u00a0and then conduct full-scale line trials of our products with Toyota and a number of other automotive customers,\u201d says\u00a0David Saltman, chairman and CEO of INCA Renewtech<\/strong>. \u201cBy replacing glass fiber-reinforced plastics with natural fiber composites we will enable our industrial partners to produce stronger and lighter products. Our customers will also be able to reduce costs by recycling trim waste and produce recyclable end products.\u00a0 That means reducing landfill waste for communities and sequestering carbon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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INCA plans to vertically integrate composites manufacturing in North America, hoping to be operational by Q2 2026. Its proposed operation in Vegreville, Canada, will purchase hemp biomass from farmers growing the cultivar for plant-based protein, refine this renewable resource and produce advanced composites for the automotive and other industries. This will also act as secondary income for farmers and will help make hemp one of the most profitable cash crops in the Canadian Prairie, thus expanding use of the hemp cultivar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cINCA\u2019s injection- and extrusion-grade pellets not only promise enhanced physical properties in finished products but also significantly improve CO2-<\/sub>equivalent emissions,\u201d adds\u00a0Scott Oppliger, principal engineer at Toyota<\/strong> Motor Manufacturing and Engineering, \u201cThe shift toward\u00a0environmentally friendly materials is crucial in our efforts to reduce our carbon footprints and mitigate climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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INCA Renewable Technologies\u00a0(INCA Renewtech, Kelowna, BC, Canada) announces\u00a0that it has been approved for a $202,534 grant from Alberta Innovates Agri-food and Bioindustrial Innovation Program to complete development of the company\u2019s novel hemp-based biocomposites and conduct line trials at Toyota (Saline, Mich., U.S.)\u00a0and other automotive Tier 1 suppliers. The funding is part of the Government of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":159050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Alberta Innovates funding will drive refinement of INCA\u2019s hemp fiber biocomposite, vertical integration by 2026 and trials with Tier 1 automotive customers","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[11286,5842,5847,11323],"supplier":[2756,18930],"class_list":["post-159019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biocomposites","tag-biomass","tag-bioplastics","tag-naturalfibers","supplier-alberta-innovates-technology-futures-aitf","supplier-inca-renewtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159019","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159019"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=159019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}