INDUSTRIAL HEMP TECHNOLOGY - AUSTRALIA
A technology company using industrial hemp to supply and decarbonise Australia's industries.
The technology to process hemp at scale has never existed in Australia. Through our US technology partnership, IKG brings that missing piece together with what Australia already has: the perfect conditions to grow, the expertise to farm, and the incredible land to scale.
Where nature meets innovation: The future of hemp processing technology
Where nature meets innovation: The future of hemp processing technology
FOR 30 YEARS, EVERY MAJOR REVIEW NAMED THE SAME GAP
It was never the crop.
Every major industry review has returned to the same constraint. Separating usable fibre from the woody core, at viable cost and scale.
The technique exists abroad. What's been missing in Australia is the finance for processing.
1995
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RIRDC
Feasibility Paper
First federal study
to frame hemp
fibre as a viable
Australian industry.
2008
⬤
NSW DPI
Primefact 801
Freight beyond
~100 km already
deemed unviable
for production.
“no processing
plant or infrastructure
in NSW”
2023
⬤
AgriFutures
AF123
Technology-mapping names processing
as the core
value-chain gap.
2025
⬤
AU Hemp Council
/ NZHIA
Surveyed operators
rank decortication
the #1 infrastructure
need — 55.8%.
2026
⬤
Dr Valenzuela
La Trobe
Decortication & quality standardisation:
the two gaps
before scale.
UNBLOCK. ACCELERATE. SCALE.
A technology partnership built to overturn the ceilings that stopped everyone before us.
Onshore-ready processing - efficient, high-quality and scalable -
at a fraction of the capital cost of thirty-year incumbents.
PROCESSING THROUGHPUT
5.5 t/hr
vs. a local ceiling of roughly
3 t/hr today.
VIABLE FREIGHT RADIUS
750 km
Overturns the ~100km ceiling identified in 2008.
CAPITAL COST
88% less
Capex required, relative to 30-year incumbent technology.
ONE CROP: MULTIPLE MARKETS
A platform of industrial-grade products, not a single output.
Our decortication technology produces multiple by-products suited to different end markets, providing diversification and a long-term growth trajectory that de-risks the model.
HURD
67%
Construction - Blocks & Panels PRIORITY
Equine - Bedding PRIORITY
Packaging - Plastic alternatives
BAST
20%
Textiles
Healthcare, Defence & Automotive - parts
BPE
10%
Automotive - compression moulding
Chemicals - absorbents Pet products
Pet products
WHERE WE’RE AT
Supply, demand and technology -
already assembled.
⬤
A technology partnership with our US-based partner, pairing proven processing capability with Australia's growing conditions, farming expertise and available land.
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Supply and off take agreements already engaged across priority end markets.
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A platform designed to supply construction, materials, textiles, packaging and agriculture - industries built on inputs hemp can substitute.
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Seven years of technical and commercial groundwork behind a single, de-risked model.
IKG competes on cost, capability and scale - with environmental benefit as an outcome of the model, not the pitch.
TECHNOLOGY & DELIVERY PARTNERS
WHERE WE’RE HEADED
A staged pathway from first machine to
national scale.
From a single operating site to a national supply network - each stage building on proven commercial traction before the next is scaled.
SCALED PATHWAY FOR GROWTH ACROSS YEAR 1-5
2026
⬤
$7.2m Off-takes
$5.2m LOIs
Distribution Channels
Scalable IP
2027
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Single machine to
begin operations
Commercial Supply
partnerships
ThoroughBed
NSW, QLD VIC
2028 - 2031
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R&D partnerships
strengthening capabilities
Deploy technology
state-by-state
Extend industry focus
incl. Blocks, Panels
2032 - 2033
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Multiple sites
expanding capacity
Manufacturing and
Construction partnerships
Regional expansion
to SE Asia, NZ
* Agreements, Offtakes and LOIs made available under Due Diligence
Our Story.
IKG Industries began with a simple observation: Australia has never lacked the potential to build an industrial hemp industry - it's lacked the processing capacity to make that potential real. Solving that has taken seven years, several iterations, and a search for the right technology to finally close the gap.
That search led to a partnership with a US-based technology provider - pairing proven processing capability with the growing conditions, farming expertise and land Australia already has.
What started as a long-held idea is now a model built on real technology, real partnerships, and a clear path to market.
Building the industrial input our industries need:
grown, processed, and
made in Australia.
To learn more about our products and join the release waitlist,
please submit your enquiry.