23.-24. October 2003 in EUROMEDIA hotel in Hürth (Metropolitan Area Cologne-Bonn), Germany
First day:
- Michael Karus (nova-Institut, Germany):
Short history of EIHA, Hemp Cultivation, processing and product lines in the EU - Yohei Koike (Japan Ecology Products, Japan):
Tradition and perspectives of the hemp industry in Japan - Philip Warner (Ecofibre Industries Hemp, Australia)
Global Hemp, The Australian Perspective - Maria Mackiewicz-Talarczyk (Institute of Natural Fibres, Poland)
Cultivation, processing and utilization of industrial hemp in Poland - Paolo Ranalli (ISCI, Italy)
Advances of hemp sector in Italy and its perspective - Cesare Tofani (FIBRANOVA, Italy)
Controlled retting of bast fibres on industrial scale: an Italian chalenge for textiles - Pierre Bouloc
The French Network of Hemp
Second day:
- Volker Buske (AGRO-DIENST, Germany)
Recent activities of AGRO-DIENST - François Desanlis (EIHA Coordinator, France)
Future European hemp institute - Jörg Müssig (FIBRE, Germany)
EIHA’s classification of hemp fibre by colour grades - Michael Karus (nova-Institut, Germany)
Natural fibres in the automotive industry – a recent market overview - Sven Ortmann (nova-Institut, Germany)
NF-PP injection moulding – overview on the results of different round tests - Marcel Toonen (Plant Research Internation Wageningen, the Netherlands)
Biotechnological improvement of hemp fibre quality - Stefano Amaducci (Università Cattolica, Italy)
The European Project HEMP SYS: Design, Development and Up-Scaling of a Sustainable Production System for HMP Textiles: an Integrated Quality SYStems Approach - Boris Rutili (DAIFA, France)
DAIFA hemp project in the plastics, building and energy industry - Hans-Jörg Gusovius (Brandenburg University of Technology)
Results of the test-run of the fibre-extraction pilot plant of the Institute of Agricultural Engeneering Bornim as well as thoughts for an European project for a related quality-management-system and corresponding test procedures