Hemp Inc (OTCMKTS:HEMP) is one of the original pot stocks trading on the bb’s and has a long history of serious volatility and big moves. The stock has surged in recent months after a bill that would make Industrial hemp legal in North Carolina was not vetoed by Governor Pat McCrory meaning it will now be passed into law.

This was big news indeed for HEMP which recently announced the purchase of a 70,000 square foot hemp processing plant and decortication line of equipment in Spring Hope, North Carolina. Investors are hoping this news can propel HEMP back to its spectacular highs seen in both early 2013 and again in 2014.

Hemp Inc (OTCMKTS:HEMP) is holding company with a number of subsidiaries operating in the industrial hemp sector as well as the legal cannabis industry. The Company intends to focus on the huge peripheral businesses created by the quickly emerging, and growing, multi-billion dollar medical marijuana and hemp industries.

The big story here is HEMP’s Temafa decortication line in North Carolina. The automated Temafa decortication equipment is designed to separate the fiber from the core of the hemp plant through a process known as decortication.

The Temafa decortication line of equipment, the only one of its kind in the United States (there are 2 in Canada, 2 in South Africa and 1 in the UK) enables HEMP to process raw hemp for American farmers into two valuable base products (fiber and hurd) that can both yield hundreds of products.

Back when they bought the decortication CEO Bruce Perlowin said “This purchase of decortication equipment was a critical step in order for Hemp, Inc. to help Americans transition from non-sustainable synthetic solutions to a hemp-based green solution. We are very excited at what we’ll be able to achieve once our manufacturing facility ramps its hemp production volume up over the next few years.”

In March HEMP said it has been given the green light by Nash County to proceed with the reassembly of its Temafa decortication line in North Carolina. In order to issue Hemp, Inc.’s subsidiary its agricultural exemption, the County required the engineering drawings for the line layout and a farm ID number. The company was issued its farm ID number from the North Carolina Department of Revenue and its engineering drawings for the line layout were approved.

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With the agricultural permit in place, the Temafa line of equipment inside the plant can be reassembled. Schmitt is currently making arrangements to get the Temafa Engineers to Spring Hope to begin the process. The Temafa line of equipment is the only one of its size and scope in North America and is one of only five in the world. “There are two in South Africa and two others in France that are actually processing industrial hemp,” says Schmitt.

Earlier this year HEMP announced 2014 year end results; sales for the year ending December 31, 2014 were up 235% over the previous year, 2013. According to the 2014 year-end filing, sales were $7,952,014 compared to the mere $2,370,925 in 2013. Assets for the period were up 172% while losses declined by 33%.

According to executives, these improvements were achieved in the midst of the company refocusing on processing kenaf and industrial hemp with its first full-scale, automated Temafa decortication plant in North Carolina. The 70,000 square-foot decortication plant is the only one of its magnitude in the United States.

On December 23 HEMP announced its Chief Operating Officer of its wholly owned subsidiary, Industrial Hemp Manufacturing, LLC, David Schmitt, spoke at the Progressive 15 Hemp Expo in Akron, Colorado. During the ten-minute presentation given by Schmitt, he updated and informed attendees and other panel members on Hemp, Inc.’s progress of its decortication facility in Spring Hope, North Carolina and the planned revenue generator for the company. He also discussed processing industrial hemp in North Carolina.

“We own the largest natural fiber decorticator in the USA. There are two in France and two in South Africa. Since May 2015, we’ve been reassembling it. Even though hemp is legal in North Carolina, there’s still a lot of work to do because we still have to set up a commission to regulate it (i.e., how to bring seed into the state and what that entails). We are very optimistic we can have seed in the ground come April of 2016. Until that happens, we will process kenaf through next year and then beginning 2017. Once we convert the line from kenaf to industrial hemp, we won’t go back to processing kenaf.”

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Currently trading at a $19 million market valuation HEMP is a pink sheet stock, who’s filings are unaudited with a history of big losses that has resulted in significant dilution in the past; but HEMP is an exciting story developing in small caps and the owner of the only decortication plant in the US very strategically located in North Carolina where industrial hemp was recently legalized. We will be updating on HEMP when more details emerge so make sure you are subscribed to Microcapdaily so you know what’s going on with HEMP.

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