Mechanical peeling of the outer bast replaces the ancient (& current) practice of producing high-quality fiber. Degummed by the same machine that peels off the bast & having the potential to work in the field is the innovation needed to ramp up primary hemp fiber production in North America & now Mexico!
Dual-purpose hemp varieties like Wojko, Joey or Anka all yield good seed production. Harvesting in the field is timed by rows, each 4 foot wide section processing 64 stalks, 5 feet tall every second, yielding approx. 1 ton of ribbon per acre. The machine is easily scaled by adding more sections (8, 12, 16 feet wide).
4 raw commodities are obtained from mobile ribbon decortication, namely SEED, HURD, DEGUMMED RIBBON FIBER & CHAFF (for low-grade CBD oil)
With great excitement, Canfiber is pleased to advance its goal of delivering high quality, low cost technical fiber to textile & composite manufacturing. Mr. Nazruddin Mohd Nawi has developed a heat tolerant enzyme that can soften, whiten & breakdown ribbon- Green, retted or Unretted into beautiful long fibers. Leveraging FFI’s technology with Canfiber’s breakthrough fresh
With most experiments, observations- Good or bad prove to be the best lessons to determine next steps in developing something extraordinary. Through serendipity, Mr. Nadeau joined onto assist in dialling in the PNGT prototype, & in so doing learned how ribbon decortication unfolded & what had been discovered & confirmed to date (12 years &
We knew having last years seed was a risk, so a handful was germinated on a plate- which sprouted in 2 days! Planting to the 10″ rows required a scramble to secure a seeder that would not only plant to the width we wanted (to provide data for a concept mobile processing unit). Unable to
It had been a tumultuous time to locate land to grow the 50lb bag of Anka from our friends at Uniseeds. Never planted in 2022, through a series of local contacts a spot was secured within 10 minutes from Canfiber’s base of operations in March. By late April, family members convinced her that it was
Canfiber was proud & honored to be present & interact with hemp stakeholders around the world on Jan 18, held in Geneva Switzerland. Much of the conference was centered along the steps to take for countries to adopt wide-spread growing & processing this fascinating plant without stigma. The session also talked about the market
With every new technology, there are growing pains. Luckily, the brunt of them were absorbed by only 1 employee. After over 10 years of development & failure, we finally cracked the code on peeling stalks of different sizes & lengths while demonstrating a scalable way to feed the machine. US Patent Application No. 17/511566 Filed:
Owing a huge debt of gratitude to Peter Dushop, the North American supplier of the Hempcutter, we were able to test fresh stalks in the benchmodel. Without this critical piece of data, mobile ribbon decortication would remain a dream. It took a plane trip to Prince George & a Hertz car rental to hand-cut the
Thanks to the platform LinkedIn, Patrick Flaherty & a bit of luck I received a box full of fiber stalks that we were able to dial in the recent RD3.0 benchmodel geometry. Having previously provided samples of the ribbon from our RD2.0 to PF Designs, he was invited to be a technical advisor for Hemp
We are proud to announce that we have finally cracked the code on mechanical ribbon decortication. Different diameters can stand together while not being precise on the height of each stalk have been adressed, along with a feed system that mimics cross-cutting a field grown similar to conventional corn. Plans are in the works to
2021 has been a very challenging year for alot of people, us included. Fortunately, we were able to take the time we had to clean up parts of the machine that required band aid solutions to get it to work initially. Having witnessed how the system works, we lightened up parts that could be made