For immediate release:27January 2025
INDINATURE HEADLINE SPONSOR FOR CHANGEWORKS CONFERENCE
Leading manufacturer of bio-based building materials, Indinature, is delighted to announce that is to be the headline sponsor for the upcoming Changeworks Connect Conference (28 February 2025, Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh).
Changeworks is Scotland's leading environmental charity which has been developing solutions for low carbon living over the past 35 years.
A key theme of the conference will be how to retrofit homes to make them more energy efficient. Indinature is a key driver behind decarbonising the construction sector with its award-winning insulation materials made from industrial hemp manufactured at its purpose-built Mill in Jedburgh.
Scott Simpson, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, Indinature said: "We were very pleased to be invited by Changeworks to be their headline sponsor for next year's conference. Our mission is to help the construction sector to decarbonise by introducing bio-based building materials which are easy to work with, effective and good for the environment. Hemp-based insulation ticks all these boxes and can be used for both new homes and as a retrofit solution for existing homes to make them more energy efficient."
He added: "Over the past eight years we have raised over £10m investment to build the IndiNature Mill in the Scottish Borders. Our flagship product IndiTherm has been successfully launched into the market and we are working on other hemp-based products for specialist applications such as acoustic panelling."
In February this year the company became the first UK company manufacturing industrial hemp insulation to be awarded a full agrément certificate from the British Board of Agrément (BBA). This means the hemp-based materials can now be used at scale in both new build and retrofit projects. It can replace conventional mineral wool insulation in the majority of building projects.
The benefits to builders are many-fold:
- The material is soft and safe to handle making the installers job easier. It can be easily cut to size using a special saw. Insulation batts provide simple friction fit against timber or masonry and are more rigid to prevent slumping.
- We are working on making the hemp materials price competitive with conventional insulation. As volume sales grow the price will become more affordable.
- Hemp has a net capture of carbon in contrast to other insulation materials which produce large amounts of carbon as a by-product of their production process.
- The material is warm in winter; hemp has great thermal performance reducing heat loss.
- Hemp is cool in summer; the material reduces the risk of buildings overheating by passively storing and releasing excess heat keeping temperatures even all year long.
- Indinature products can be reused at the end of life or reprocessed into the same products thereby reducing waste. Moreover, all the hemp and flax used is produced in UK farms supporting local jobs and reducing carbon miles.
- Flagship product IndiTherm has passed the UKAS fire standard EN 13501-1 and for smoke it has the best Class rating of s1. For flaming droplets, the product has none showing a Class d0.
- The material is particularly suitable for historic and listed buildings as it keeps structures dry.
- Hemp has excellent sound dampening properties achieving 40db sound reduction in internal partition walls.
The hemp used in the mill is currently sourced from East Yorkshire Hemp but plans are in the pipeline to have hemp grown in Scotland to further reduce the environmental impact. Hemp was a traditional crop in the UK and is farmed extensively in Europe. It is a fast growing annual crop making it highly renewable and sustainable.
IndiNature products are now available direct from the mill as well as merchants and distributors across the UK. For further information about the company, products or where to buy please visitwww.indinature.co
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