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Established in 2017 with the aim of reviving the native Russian industry — hemp farming, and creating the largest technical hemp company in the world.
Smart Hemp literally means «smart tech hemp». It is the smartest crop on earth. It can provide paper, fuel and bioplastic. Hemp kept us safe, clothed and fed for centuries, until in 1961, at the initiative of plastic and timber producers, the UN made it a drug, which the UN and the world now regrets.
Industrial hemp has a number of unique benefits and is:
- alternative to cotton as a feedstock for fabrics and cellulose nitrates
- alternative to petroleum as a raw material for plastics, composites and fabrics
- alternative to wood and waste paper as a raw material for building materials and pulp
Smart Hemp literally means "smart tech hemp"
Thanks to the acquisition of the legendary town-forming textile factory «A.Y.Balin Manufactory Partnership" of 1860, the use of world experience and the application of innovative technologies, we have already become the first and only in the world with a full cycle of hemp "from seed to shirt» , and this is only the beginning!
Our business is entirely
based on the green economy:
based on the green economy:
- In cultivation technical hemp absorbs more CO2 than trees , after itself hemp enriches the soil.
- Requires 3 times less land than cotton and 1 ha of hemp pulp replaces 4 ha of forest 3 - we are for forest conservation.
- The production of hemp fibre requires 3 times less water than cotton fibre4 , absolutely all waste is recycled.
- Consuming lightweight composite materials with hemp reduces CO2 emissions 5 , and hemp durable clothing.
- Useful hemp textiles and biodegradable hemp packaging replace harmful plastic - we are for the environment.
- And there is no need for harmful chemicals like for cotton - we are for clean water bodies!
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY
We have a full cycle of technical hemp and flax in textiles — sowing, harvesting, collection and processing of hemp and flax, yarn production, garment and textile development, retailing.
Premium hemp brand of clothing, textiles and cosmetics is the first hemp fur in the world
www.smarthemp.ru
- Smart HempTrade Ltd. sales with VAT, import of yarns and fabrics, development of technical cards, placing orders, including with third parties for spinning, weaving and sewing.
Production and processing of tresta, — the first hemp cotonin production in Russia
- LLC "House of Hemp" sales excluding VAT
- Smart Hemp LLC management company
Café and shop of hemp products from various brands — the first hemp showroom in the Russian Federation
- LLC "Smart Hemp Agro" agricultural producer
- Market place of hemp products of different brands
- Smart Hemp Ivanovo LLC processing of tresta at BALINA, a resident of the TOSER " Yuzha"
- Show room with a studio, vegetarian cafe, ecological textiles and organic cosmetics
Textile Factory of the year 1860 — the only production of yarn with hemp in the Russian Federation
- Manufaktura Balina Ltd. buildings and structures of the textile factory in Yuzha
www.домконопли.рф
- Yuzhteks LLC, yarn production, resident of the TOSER "Yuzha"
www.hermperico.ru
balinafactory.ru
Our mill in Juzha is the only one in the country to produce linen yarns from short flax fibres in such volumes and the first to produce bast and hemp yarns.
The history of our factory begins in 1860. It was in this year that Ivan Alexandrovich Protasiev (1802−1875), a Vyazniki landowner, built a threestorey building of a paper-spinning mill for 16 thyousand spindles on the shore of Lake Vazal, designed by N.K. Reim. Due to shortage of cotton supplies in 1864 the Yuzha mill was stopped.
In 1865 Protasiev sold it to Asigkrit Yakovlevich Balin (1816−1886), who continued the business of his grandfather Semyon Ivanovich Balin.
(1761- 1831), who bought linen canvas in the village of Vichuga from small artisans and dyed them in blue colour.
In half a century the Balins turned a village lost in the forests with a population of 300 into an exemplary industrial garden town with a population of 15 thousand inhabitants, 7800 of whom worked in the factory workshops in 1914.
In 1885, a few days after Asigkrit Yakovlevich’s death, his wife and sons established the "A.Y.Balin Manufactory Partnership".
The scale of production organised by the Balins was maintained and developed during the Soviet era.
Attempts to "revitalise" the factory were made several times, but the changed economic situation did not allow to do it seriously and for a long time. Now in the working shops of the " A.Y. Balin Manufactory Partnership" it smells of flax and hemp. And yarn is produced from hemp fibres.
Our mill is the only one in the country to produce linen yarns from short fibre flax and the first to produce bast yarns in such volumes. We are also the only one in the country to produce blended yarns with hemp. Apart from us, the only other producers of hemp blended yarns in the world are China, Italy and Turkey.
Clothing and textiles with hemp and flax min 15% in the blend are better than 100% cotton and are more valuable — hypoallergenic, UV protective, antibacterial, antiseptic, bactericidal, antifungal properties, and increased durability.
Our main product for export: bast yarn and cottonised hemp and flax fiber — cotton-like fibres from bast crops or simply cotonin.
HEMP COTONIN
FLA XSEED COTONIN
Cotonised hemp and flax fibres are used for dry spinning to replace cotton in blended yarns. Depending on the cotton length, up to 55% can be replaced on the same machine. Our main advantage is that we produce our own yarn and use our own cotonin. This means that our standards and the quality of our spun cotonin are constantly improving.
- Length < 60 mm incl. for wool
- Moisture <13%
- Clogging <1%
QUALITY
- Size 0.9m x 0.9m x 0.5m
- Volume 0.4 m3
- Weight 150kg
- 40 foot container
- Volume 67 m3, 22 tonnes
- < 145 bales
BALE
LOADING
The bast yarns flax and/or hemp numbers Nm 3 — Nm 7 are suitable for the production of canvas sailcloth, which is subsequently used for the production of tents, covers, awnings and cotton storage bags, as well as for the production of carpets and backings.
Balin Manufactory
We have developed vegetable fur from hemp and flax cotonin, "Russian denim" and the most popular yarn Nm 20 from recycled cotton and hemp and flax cotonin.
We promote
our mission everywhere:
our mission everywhere:
«We want to pass on to our descendants a culture of careful production and consumption to preserve the planet»
Library
Sources of information
Sources: C harret, 2005; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341475373_industrial_hemp_fiber_A_sustainable_and_economical_alternative_to_cotton; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 404, 1916; (4) Hoekstra, 2013; https://youtu.be/4yjHdqNKDOc; hemptoday.net/the-chinese-strategy-planning-a-roadmap-to-hempsfuture/; eiha.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2018-Hemp -agri-report.pdf; www.country-guide.ca/crops/hemp-101-for-growers/; https://unf ccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/UCC_Cotton_Pet_ report.pdf; (10) https://tass.ru/ekonomika/14801463
Research paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6222420/pdf/molecules-23-01993.pdf
Research paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC911747/pdf/materials-15-01901.pd
Research paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC911747/pdf/materials-15-01901.pd
Сontacts
www.smarthemp.ru
Nikitsky lv 17
Moscow 119019
Dom konopli / Дом конопли
Sovetskaya street 42
Yuzha 155630
Balina Factory
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