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Nature wins!
HempFlax hemp cultivation
Rediscovery
The past: In 1994, HempFlax began to The present: Since then, HempFlax has
reintroduce hemp in the Netherlands, a designed, developed and patented
crop that had not been cultivated there for specialised machines for harvesting hemp.
fifty years, with 140 hectares to its name. HempFlax continues to spend a lot of time
Between 1995 and 2001, HempFlax on research and development to modify
reinvented the harvest and processing machinery to meet the very specific demands
methods for industrial hemp. When the of the hemp plant’s tough, fibrous stems,
company first began, there were no and to innovate these processes.
harvesters or bale presses that could handle
‘the strongest natural fibre known to man’.
Harvesting hemp in the ‘20s HempFlax patented mower
