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Prospects for hemp particleboards and OSB panels in the USA

01/12/2021 | hempmarket
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Both hemp chipboards and plant-based OSB panels have excellent prospects in the construction market of the most highly developed country in the world.

The editors of the specialized electronic edition of national cannabis growers have more than once described construction projects, within the framework of which construction projects were effectively implemented on the territory of various administrative-territorial units of the United States, during which wood concrete mixtures were effectively used, the basis of which are various components of the fibrous part of the plant (fiber and fire). Sensing the market interest in hemp building materials, American business quickly moved from local projects to scaling the possibilities of using plant properties in modern construction. The pages of the specialized electronic edition have already described how “The American company plans to invest $ 5.8 million in the production of“ hemp lumber ”, as well as the fact that“Hemp flooring is already being sold in the US . ” The information published below relates to American particle board technology, as well as oriented strand board, already made from hemp raw materials in the United States.

Cannagrove hemp chipboard

Initially, hemp particle board was more expensive than traditional particle board due to the fact that the logistics costs of transporting raw hemp were disastrously high. A few years ago, the logistics of delivering raw materials to production facilities was half the cost of manufacturing the product itself. However, the management of the enterprise managed to establish the cultivation of industrial crops of industrial hemp near production facilities, which made it possible to significantly reduce the final cost of hemp particleboard and, accordingly, this building material became competitive in the US market. Moreover, in 2021, when the cost of traditional particleboard increased significantly after the next outbreak of the pandemic, hemp particleboard rapidly took a significant share of the market in several US states at once, as it is already a less expensive and better quality construction product.

Plantd hemp OSB

Josh Dorfman and Huade Tan, co-founders of North Carolina startup Plantd, founded the project as a result of finding suitable alternatives to woody biomass used to produce Oriented Strand wood construction Boards (OSB) panels. The project was based on the information that the incredible strength and carbon characteristics of the fibrous part of industrial hemp make it an optimal raw material for the construction of residential buildings. With the financial support of North Carolina Idea Seed, the company has created a prototype of hemp OSB panel. The zest of the business plan prepared by the co-founders of Plantd for the creation of production facilities that will be designed for the production of hemp OSB panels is that its cost is several orders of magnitude cheaper than similar factories producing traditional OSB panels. According to Mr Dorfman, “Our approach removes the need for the 4 million pound eight-deck press that powers traditional OSB panel production. Instead, we are building micro-factories that will be located near the sites where most US homes are built. ” 

Commentary of the specialists of the Association "Ukrainian technical hemp"

Unlike wood, hemp is a viable crop in much of the United States, which allows it to localize cultivation, processing and final production close to the consumer, which the modern woodworking industry cannot achieve. In addition, industrial hemp can be dried in the same field where it is harvested. The plant does not require an energy intensive industrial green wood drying process. Taking into account the peculiarities of the US construction market (a huge part of buildings and structures are made of wood materials), both hemp chipboards and OSB panels made on the basis of a plant have excellent prospects in the construction market of the most highly developed country in the world.