Project details
Ukraine has been ripped apart by war in the last 10 years. Thousands of bridges, roads, buildings, and most importantly, homes have been destroyed. According to UN statistics close to 8 million Ukrainians have been displaced leaving everything behind due to Russian invasion. These people are in urgent need of new housing, but not just a regular houses built out of concrete, styrofoam or rock wool that will start falling apartin 15-20 years. But houses that these refugees can call their new homes,meaning they would be built using local,natural, sustainable materials like hemp.
Ukraine has a rich history cultivating industrial hemp. For example, Institute of Bast Fiber is over 90 years old. Our company Hempire has been working tirelessly to provide market with hemp-based 100% - natural insulation products for the last 8 years, Now our company has successfully built many homes using hemplime (hempcrete) technology and is ready to scale up its operations. The idea is to build a facility that would be manufacturing carbon-negative hemplime blocks and insulation panels. Such equipment will be almost fully automatic needing only 8-10 people to run an entirely facility. 1500 homes can be insulated yearly using products from this facility. This technology is highly scalable and next facility can be set up in another region. This material is very well tested and certified and is ready to be used to insulate new or an existing houses and buildings to provide an extremely energy efficient insulation.
Advantages of thisproduct:
- Humidity regulation
- Energy efficient
- 100% natural and Ukrainian
- Carbon Negative!
- Fire Resistant
- Mold and pest Resistant
Brief Market Overview
According to the Kyiv School of Economics, the direct damage to Ukraine's infrastructure caused by Russia's full-scale invasion exceeded $150 billion. Almost $56 billion of this amount is the loss of housing stock.
Ukraine, there are almost 160 thousand buildings and structures destroyed due to Russian aggression, about 20 thousand of them aremulti-storey buildings. Most of them are residential buildings.
These data were provided by the Director of the State Research Institute of Building Structures, Doctor of Technical Sciences,Professor Hennadii Farieniuk.
There is a massive demand to build new homes in Ukraine so erecting facilities to manufacture hemp-based insulation and construction materials will have a big positive economic, social and environmental impact on Ukraine.
Company Owner Overview
Hempire has been founded by Sergiy Kovalenkov in 2015.The company has developed its own 100% natural binders for hemp based insulation products and has been successfully implementing its carbon-negative solutions not just across Ukraine, but overseas as well. USA is one of the countries where Hempire has started to manufacture its’ products. Over the years the company has received numerous international awards for its innovations during green tech and sustainability contests and forums. The company is planning to become a major Ukrainian hub for hemp-based housing solutions in near future.Right now Hempire is partnering up with one of Canadian native entities to start building sustainable energy efficient houses for Native people of Canada.