INTERVIEW: Hongliang Ding is founder and president of Hemp Fortex Industries, one of the world’s longest-established hemp textile companies. He founded the company in Qingdao, China, in 1999 and has
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Pakistan’s textile industry risks repeating decades-old mistakes by exporting low-value hemp fiber while overseas brands capture the highest profits from design, branding, and retail, according to one of the country’s
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Polish hemp company Kombinat Konopny’s debut on NewConnect, the junior market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, was one of the strongest openings ever seen on the platform and marks another
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In an industry long defined by fragmented supply chains and unrealized promises, Poland’s Kombinat Konopny is beginning to show what a fully integrated hemp business can look like in practice
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[Third in a five-part series of the most popular stories on HempToday in 2025] Fiber markets in 2025 did not deliver overnight scale, but they provided something arguably more important:
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When the U.S. Navy turned to Tuscarora Mills of Bedford, Pennsylvania, to help outfit the crew of the historic USS Constitution with dungarees for a new set of uniforms, it
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[FIFTH IN A SERIES] INTERVIEW: Lawrence Serbin, President of Hemp Traders and longtime industry leader, reflects on more than 30 years in hemp. Speaking at the NIHC Global Industrial Hemp
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[SECOND IN A SERIES] INTERVIEW: Marcel Dabdoub shares his path from real estate and startup investment into the industrial hemp sector, and how those experiences shaped the creation of BioPhil
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A major industrial hemp processing facility in north-central Ukraine will soon begin receiving its first harvest after a successful growing season, marking a significant step in the country’s ongoing revival
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Helped by an EU-funded initiative, stakeholders in France are working to strengthen the hemp textiles supply chain, engaging farmers, processors, and textile producers from north to south in a regionally
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