Hi I am Adam Garrity I have been in the MMJ Industry for a number of years now and my next project is a hemp farm here in colorado. I already have connections running a farm now. I would love to talk with innovators more on this subject. If anyone would like to talk more about it in private please Contact me @ maryjanecoin@gmail.com
I also am a developer of the digital currency maryjanecoin in which I will be integrating its use with the hemp farms.
Hello Everyone!
I am looking to develop my invention with hemp plastic. I have been researching and there is a company in Italy and Australia. I need to figure out what parts of the plant do we use to make the filament. If someone could explain that would be great. Someone mentioned MarkForged Mark as the 3D printer that works with hemp filament? Is this true? I need to look these prices up. Does anyone have a manufacturer that knows that can help me or any steps to help me get my prototype made. Thank you!
Hey all love this post and im hoping to make a filament maker with simpke parts like a windscreen motor, which is prob the biggest costing part if you take a look at this instructable youl see how easy and just how much sense it makes to construct such an amazing machine. Thanks to the original instructables creator For this awesome machine. http://m.instructables.com/id/Build-your-own-3d-printing-filament-factory-Filame/
Hi, I’m Karen. I’m very interested in the current state of 3d hemp printing for construction. I’ve seen some things online that intrigue me and would love to know more.
Do you have an email I can contact you about some projects?
Do you have an email I can contact you at about a project.
Hi, you can contact me at atomjaay@gmail.com
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Oh hey! We just released Entwined Hemp Filament today!
This is great news and I love the transition spool of your Ingeo PLA. SO does the hemp lessen the strength like other wood fills or does the hemp bio fill have some self adhesion tendencies? Is there any chance the hemp will eventually be the bulk polymer of the filament or will it always use PLA as a binder. Is this Ingeo PLA or std corn? Is there still very limited amounts of hemp heart or other material allowed from Canada in one go or has the law been relaxed, as this is a bottleneck for other hemp based operations? What is happening to the stalks and other raw hemp refuse from the Colorado accelerated agro boom?
You absolutely need to send a free spool to https://markforged.com/ for trials on their system. They use cordage inlay-ed into a FFF print with thermoplastic. The use of Hemp cord inlay in a Hemp filament print needs to happen and be tested for strength. It’s just too perfect a combo to not do it.
Hi Bryna,
I’m also working on a hemp plastic invention in California. There are a number of ways to go about fabrication, while we either gear up to make this filament ourselves or try other methods during the interim. In Europe, perhaps you could try Zelfo-technology, http://www.zelfo-technology.com/. I haven’t seen anything mentioning filament on their website, but I haven’t visited every nook and cranny as yet.
I am also working with 100% micro fibrillated hemp which requires molding and coloring in the process, and I have successfully built a number of working models of my invention. I have a gmail address for further communication.
dfpourinrain1 @ gmail dot com
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So sorry, missed your earlier questions!
We haven’t noticed any strength differences compared to Ingeo PLA, but we are still waiting on the mechanical tests to come back so we can answer more definitively.
For consistent printibility we believe that PLA will need to be the bulk polymer. Think of the hemp as more of a filler, similar to wood, coffee, or metal filaments. If we increased the hemp loading much more we run into poor quality, brittle filament. We believe that we’ve struck a balance between hemp loading and print consistency. This also ensures that the filament will work in any 3D printer capable of printing in PLA. We are using Ingeo PLA for the base polymer, but because there is more than 2% non-PLA in this, we are not able to use the Ingeo mark for this product.
Hemp supply is a non-issue for this. We’d have to be going through some serious volumes for hemp supply to become an issue.
Entwined won’t work with the MarkForged system the way you think it will. The filament is not a continuous strand of hemp fiber. Rather it is finely processed so that it will print through the majority of FDM nozzles without issue.
We agree with the testing of hemp cord inlay, but we won’t be the ones to implement it. Perhaps the folks at MarkForged may be working on something to that effect?
Thanks for the response. The Markforged system uses both FDM filament and cordage in one machine. The two are combined at the printhead. Your product should work in their printer along with some random spool of hemp cord.
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Perhaps. I know that they have the FDM portion of their machine tuned to using nylon.
Good news, we have made 3D hempfilament, in cooperation with www.3d4makers.com in Haarlem, the Netherlands. We. www.hemplyne.com supply the granulate, a 100 % biodegradable hemp fibre composite, the 3d4makers made the filament. thank you for caring…
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www.hemplyne.com has 3d printer filament for 0.6 nozzles
