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)
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
After presenting another method to peel to Canfiber’s engineer, demonstrated by building a simple model (adapted to fit off the RD3.0 prototype’s infeed section), an updated model was designed. Now tested & proving a couple key questions like; Will the optimized geometry work? &, most importantly; How hard would it be to manually process 20
It wasn’t expected, but there existing in the world two other methods to produce ribbon according to a rely from the US patent office 18 months after filing. What the patent clerk overlooked though was our method is significantly different than the other inventors. It has taken Alot of time by our gifted engineer, but
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
2022 ended with a whimper, prompting a time for reflection of past mistakes. It started with a difference of opinion that led to an abrupt halt in development in the RD2.0, internally known as the NGT (next generation development). What started as a promising technology, testing was abruptly halted after a series of misteps- A
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