Other interesting applications for decorticated materials include:
- Engineered composite products
- Hempcrete for use in the construction industry
- Growth mats for greens
- Growth medium for mushroom farming
InnoTech Alberta’s decortication plant is a one-of-a-kind facility. It opened in 2011, measures 13,000 sq. ft., and can process industrial hemp or flax straw into bast fibre and hurd at a rapid rate of 1 tonne per hour. The un-retted straw can be cleaned to greater than 90% purity. We can adjust hurd size, fibre cleanliness, and fibre length to meet client specifications. The equipment available at the plant includes:
- 2 hopper feeders
- Bale unroller
- Guillotine
- 2 decorticators (hammer mill and disc mill)
- 2 duvexes (one for cleaning fiber and one for cleaning hurd)
- Fine opener
- Step cleaner
- Pellet mill (please also see our Thermo-Chemical Treatment Facility)
- Chopping line (utilizing a forage type chopper)
- System can utilize big round or big square bales of hemp or flax straw
- Clean bast fibre leaves the plant in 2’ X 2’ X 4’ compressed bales
- Dust is collected in a 53’ moving floor trailer
- Hurd leaves the plant in super sacks
