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Hemptown contracts ARC to commercialise technology

06/12/2005

Hemptown Clothing Inc. has announced that it will work with the Alberta Research Council (ARC) to commercialise its new Textile Fibre technology developed jointly with the National Research Council (NRC). Specifically, ARC has been contracted to conduct pilot tests on samples to establish the parameters required by industry for Hemptown's new sustainable fibre technology Crailar.

Hemptown Clothing and the federal science organisation NRC jointly developed Crailar as an enzyme process that transforms industrial hemp into a soft, white fibre. It claims worldwide, petroleum and cotton based textiles make a huge environmental footprint in production and are not sustainable for the future. Hemp is highly environmentally sensitive, grown organically without the use of pesticides, toxic fertilisers or the substantial fresh water irrigation required by cotton.


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