Conference Speakers

Trey Riddle, Ph.D.

CFO, IND Hemp

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Trey Riddle is an avid entrepreneur, having founded and run several businesses. He has worked as an engineer, manager and executive and has built factories as well as authored numerous peer reviewed papers. As the Chief Financial Officer of IND HEMP, Trey is responsible for overseeing the Sales, Marketing and Finance departments and is an expert in biofiber manufacturing and utilization. He holds a PhD from Montana State University in Polymer Composites and advanced materials and a Masters from Cornell University in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in automotive technology

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Comparison of Hemp Fiber Based Spunlace Formulations to Select Traditional Spunlace Products

IND HEMP has a successful line of technical fibers for airlaid thermobonded and carded needle punched nonwovens. Now, we are developing a suite of premium fibers to support textile & spunlace nonwovens. A three-phase program has been launched to evaluate these fibers in spunlace (carding and hydro entangling) applications. The first phase, showing initial compatibility with spunlace manufacturing process, has been completed successfully at the NC State Nonwovens Institute. The second phase, completed at Southeast Nonwovens, focused on comparing and contrasting the physical properties of specific spunlace formulations. This data has identified competitive advantages of hemp fiber formulations and is being used to direct a focused large-scale product trial during Phase 3. The Rise presentation will provide a summary of Phase 2 test results, illustrating the performance of hemp fibers and application specific attributes in side-by-side comparison to other traditional spunlace formulations.