Award for insulation from hemp (video)
German experience should be extremely interesting to Ukrainian farmers engaged in the cultivation of industrial hemp cultivation technology due to the fact that the national konoplevodstvo according to the basic laws of dialectics stands on the threshold of the transition of quantitative indicators of growing hemp in the quality of raw materials.
German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU - Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt) in 2013, presented the environmental award in the amount of 250 thousand euros of German entrepreneurs Carmen Hawk Heil (Carmen Hock-Heyl). According Bottermana Henry (Heinrich Bottermann), General-Secretary of the founder Foundation Award "The award was given for the shown entrepreneurial courage and a willingness to solve the challenges. Carmen firmly believed in their ideas about climate protection and, in the end, was able to realize them. She organized the production of hemp plates for thermal insulation of facades of houses. Plates are capable of completely biodegradable. "
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Carmen Hawk Heil special woman. It has developed an environmentally friendly insulation material. In winter, he does not miss the house cold, and in summer on the contrary keeps the rooms cool. The material is made from hemp - fibers derived from hemp stalks. Produces Hawk Heil panel in its own factory in the Bavarian town of Nördlingen. But to run the whole project was not so easy.
Carmen Hawk Heil, razrabotchitsa insulating material
I always say. Just imagine, comes to the construction company woman, blonde and brings thermal insulation material of hemp. She said that they do not need and do not understand what she wants them to do with your heater. It was quite difficult to implement idea in practice.
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Hemp grown for insulation in France and Germany Thuringia. After harvesting, the plant treated. The resulting fiber - hemp, is sent to the factory in Nördlingen. Many people are surprised, really can make insulation from hemp.
Carmen Hawk Heil, razrabotchitsa insulating material
I am often asked, and it is possible that warmer still smoking. I say yes, you can, but it is to no avail.
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The fact that industrial hemp is not intoxicated. In the factory, the raw material is processed in several stages. The carrier fiber which helps to make the insulation more stable sintered with hemp in a kind of huge furnaces. The output is a ready-insulating material. It is necessary only to cut into slabs. According to employees of the factory Hawk Heil regularly seeks to improve the quality of the insulation.
Karl-Heinz Randy, factory employee
If you have an idea of Mrs. Hawk, we will be tormented with the idea as long as it does not sell.
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So she is very strong-willed woman
Karl-Heinz Randy, factory employee
Yes that's right, she is a perfectionist. For example, it will not be satisfied with the first result. Everything must be done by 100%.
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Among Carmen Hawk Heil employs 60 people. Initially, they worked in a carpenter's workshop, which was owned by her family.
Carmen Hawk Heil, razrabotchitsa insulating material
Here is the photo taken in '99. Here I am, my husband and son in the parental carpentry workshop. I have always been involved in insulating materials and saw the difficulties faced by our employees when we established a regular heater. People are itching, scratching material, so I came up with to make insulation of ordinary hemp.
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But to develop alternative insulation is not so simple. It must comply with many requirements. For example, it must be refractory. The test showed, although plate of hemp and to smoke, in the end it did not lit up. The thermal conductivity of the plates must also meet the standards and are regularly tested. From Hemp is constantly being improved. Take, for example, the carrier fiber. Usually it is made of polyester, new models made from cornstalks.
Carmen Hawk Heil, razrabotchitsa insulating material
I would like to receive the insulating material, which will be valuable in the future. When, for example, oil reserves on earth will gradually dwindle. I think that the fibers of the polyester will then simply not available. So we were looking for another way.
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These plates are environmentally friendly as well as a growing hemp absorbs greenhouse gas than is released during the production of a heater. Nevertheless, there was a little wanting to insulate your house this unusual material in Germany. Here lives Rig family. The house is located near the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. Rig family among those who decided to experiment.
Manuel Rig
The entire roof can have a look, we warmed insulating material of hemp. It took two months. We warmed the walls and the bottom of the first floor.
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Although hemp plates are more expensive than traditional insulation materials of mineral wool, for a family Rig in the first place are the convenience and quality.
Manuel Rig
See, for work with this plate not even need gloves. It is not scratched. In summer it is pleasant to work with, the skin of it does not itch. There are no problems with this material.
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Rumors of the miracle spread quickly a heater. For the development of this material Carmen Hawk Heil was awarded the German Environmental Award. Decent and very honorable reward for hard work.
Carmen Hawk Heil, razrabotchitsa insulating material
You know, this is so. You in the beginning. You have only three people, and then you do not even notice how everything develops. This award, which I receive, an occasion to look back and say - "I did it all." But imagine this is simply impossible.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
German experience should be extremely interesting to Ukrainian farmers engaged in the cultivation of industrial hemp cultivation technology due to the fact that the national konoplevodstvo according to the basic laws of dialectics stands on the threshold of the transition of quantitative indicators of growing hemp in the quality of raw materials. Already in 2016 a number of members of the Association before the island became a question of the necessity of processing of raw hemp produced them. Most likely this kind of trend in 2017 will intensify.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua