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Segments such as food and beverage are growing in the Canadian hemp market
Sales of food and beverages are growing steadily despite strict packaging regulations. At the moment, the food and beverage market already accounts for more than 5% of all sales in the first half of 2021. For the entire 2020, the market for recreational hemp food products reached $ 87 million, while in the first half of 2021 it has already reached almost $ 54 million.
The start of the European market for hemp biocomposites can start from Italy
Having entered into an agreement with the American Hemp Plastic
Company, the Italian company complements the LATI range and includes
compounds based on polymers obtained by mechanical or chemical
processing from renewable sources of raw materials, primarily hemp.
German technology for the production of hemp paper
Hemp paper produced for digital printing by Hahnemühle has a unique structure, does not contain acids, therefore it is highly resistant to aging. Designed for high speed inkjet, analog offset, and other flexible digital printing systems.
A brief analysis of the current state of individual segments of the CBD market in Europe
In
Italy, the permissible daily intake of hemp products containing
tetrahydrocannabinol should not exceed 1 microgram per kilogram of body
weight, while in Switzerland this figure is 7, in the US 13, and in
Canada 14.
US grants for hemp fiber processing
Immediately, two government agencies responsible for the development of cannabis growing in Missouri provide grants totaling $ 900 thousand in order to encourage cooperation of agricultural producers and processors in this administrative-territorial unit to use hemp straw / trust as efficiently as possible. The above funds are provided with the aim of creating production facilities that will maximize the use of the fibrous part of the plant, producing high value added products of interest to the market.
Research on the impact of CBG on its consumers
For 74% of respondents, cannabigerol became a better treatment for chronic pain than conventional drugs currently on the market in the United States. In addition, the positive effects of this drug-free cannabinoid are characteristic of 80% of people suffering from depression, 73% of people unable to cope with insomnia, and 78% of users with various anxiety states.
Plant-based cannabidiol and menstrual pain
Natural CBD can relieve symptoms such as anxiety, stress, depression, insomnia, headaches, and inflammation. Many women experience these same symptoms during their period, suggesting that this drug-free natural cannabinoid is extremely effective in relieving menstrual syndromes.
Technologies that use the exclusive properties of hemp to create new types of biocomposites
The technologies of American chemists allow to chemically combine the structure-imparting component of hemp fibers, lignin, with "binding molecules" that strengthen the resulting biocomposite. Unlike previous methods, this approach requires exclusively water as a solvent, resulting in harmless inorganic salts rather than volatile organic compounds as by-products.
Hemp Supplements
According
to a number of US hemp market experts, the market value of retail sales
of only CBD supplements derived from the hemp plant exclusively in the
US has increased from $ 170 million in 2016 to nearly $ 20 billion in
2021.
Levi's aims to use more hemp for its fashion collections
In 2019, the digging presented a collection of denim (coarse, stiff, dense twill weave) with a hemp content of about 30%, and in March 2021 it increased the use of hemp fiber in the Levi's WellThread collection, which already includes about 55% of hemp fiber in jeans produced by the company.