Tag: Heartland

  • Heartland Solves ‘Traveling Salesman Problem’ To Help Farmers Optimize Planting, Harvesting, & Scouting With ReMap

    Heartland Solves ‘Traveling Salesman Problem’ To Help Farmers Optimize Planting, Harvesting, & Scouting With ReMap

    Heartland has revolutionized plot mapping technology to drive efficiency for farming operations across the world. Their ReMap technology (www.heartland.io/remap-farming-plot-map-online/) will reduce the time, money, energy, and carbon footprint required to farm.

    The traveling salesman is a famous mathematical problem that focuses on finding the fastest route between multiple locations. This is a universal problem that can help optimize logistics networks across land, air, and sea. Solving this problem opens the door for Heartland to run mathematical calculations that have never been possible.

    With a mathematically perfect plot map, farmers can ensure a reduction in fuel consumption, maintenance costs, and the time necessary to complete their planting, harvesting, and scouting. ReMap is a technology solution to a problem that farmers have faced for more than 12,000 years.

    Heartland recently received a $360,000 USDA grant for soil health, carbon sequestration, and regenerative agriculture. This kickstarted a desire for Heartland to drive efficiency across the greater agriculture industry.

    Heartland is sitting at the intersection of regenerative farming and sustainable manufacturing. ReMap technology will become a foundational tool to help Heartland drive the adoption of green chemistry across industries.

    “Heartland’s team is exploring the different applications of this computing technology to drive new material innovations.” Says Heartland CEO, Jesse Henry. “This technology allows us to create never-before-seen solutions in agriculture, manufacturing, chemistry, and advanced materials.”

    Today, Heartland engineers hemp fibers as additives for plastics. The company is working with America’s largest manufacturers and suppliers to integrate high-performance carbon-negative plastic additives into everyday products. The commercialization of Heartland’s biomaterials will allow companies to predictably reduce their carbon footprint without compromising strength, weight, or price.

    Heartland’s vision is to become earth’s most sustainable company. Their desire to create efficiency in hemp fiber and the greater agriculture industry has gone far beyond carbon sequestration. Heartland is developing the technology and insurance products to ensure that hemp can be efficiently grown, processed, and utilized.

    Creating standards in agriculture technology, insurance, and finance will help to unlock the global distribution of commodity hemp materials. ReMap is a first-of-its-kind agriculture technology that solves an optimization problem from 1930.

    “There are mathematical problems that scientists and engineers don’t even bother trying to solve because they are too complex and require too much computation.” Says Tim Almond of Heartland, “This will allow them to solve those problems with ease.”

    Large companies are spending billions on new innovations, but they are limited by the amount of time and computing power it takes to run calculations and simulations. The math behind Heartland’s plot mapping technology can help those companies solve these same problems in seconds.

    Today, Heartland’s hemp additives are driving sustainable material innovation for many of America’s largest manufacturers and suppliers. Heartland’s technology breakthrough helps them develop a platform that solves some of the most impactful problems for the biggest companies.

    About Heartland

    Heartland is a material innovation company that engineers hemp fibers as additives for plastics. Heartland’s additives help manufacturers exceed their sustainability mandates without compromising cost and performance. As an industrial hemp material processor, they work with farmers, manufacturers, and their suppliers to commoditize high-performance carbon-negative additives that can be used across various raw material supply chains. Heartland’s products help companies manufacture using stronger, lighter, cheaper, and more sustainable materials. For more information, visit https://www.heartland.io.

  • Heartland and Ravago Develop Products to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Plastic

    Heartland and Ravago Develop Products to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Plastic

    Heartland and Ravago Americas have executed a joint development agreement to create the next generation of plastic resins. This collaboration aims to drive material innovation for companies that buy large volumes of plastic. Heartland’s hemp additives will help these manufacturers reduce the cost, weight, and carbon footprint of the raw materials they rely on every day.

    Ravago is one of the world’s largest plastic recyclers, compounders, and distributors. Ravago and its subsidiaries service over 50,000 customers globally across 325 facilities in 55 countries. Annually, they supply over 6.6 million MT of polymer and rubber. Heartland is building America’s first reliable industrial hemp supply chain to provide additives for manufacturers that use plastics.
    By leveraging carbon-negative and renewable plastic additives like industrial hemp, Ravago can offer composite products that are stronger, lighter, cheaper, and more sustainable. Not only will these plastics have enhanced thermal and acoustic properties, but Heartland’s hemp additives help prolong the life of Ravago’s materials that use recycled content.

    Heartland’s engineered hemp additives reduce the carbon footprint of virgin plastics by as much as 44%. Heartland is also focused on verifying the impact of hemp-filled recycled plastics versus traditional virgin plastics that are typically compounded with mineral fillers like talc and calcium carbonate.

    Heartland has worked alongside Ravago to engineer their hemp materials as renewable additives for plastics. Ravago’s R&D team has guided Heartland in engineering products that do not require additional retooling costs for plastic compounders and molders.

    After the 2022 farming cycle, Heartland estimates that they will be able to process over 100,000,000 pounds of hemp additives that will be available for plastic compounding. Ravago and Heartland will continue to research and develop products to serve automotive, packaging, building materials, and other markets.

    About Ravago:

    The Ravago group represents over 6.6 million metric tons of annual polymer sales serving more than 50,000 active customers through 325+ locations across more than 55+ countries worldwide. Ravago’s production competence consists of 45+ manufacturing facilities (recycling and compounding plants; production plants for the building sector; and plants and laboratories for its Chemicals business). This all would not have been possible without the help of its 8,000 employees. For more information, visit https://www.ravago.com.

    About Heartland:

    Heartland is a biotech company that engineers hemp fibers as additives for plastics. Their team is building America’s first reliable industrial hemp supply chain to provide additives for manufacturers that use plastic resins. As an industrial hemp material processor, they work with farmers and manufacturers to ensure the product consistency of bio-based additives that can be used across raw material supply chains. Heartland’s products help companies manufacture with stronger, lighter, cheaper, and more sustainable materials. For more information, visit https://www.heartland.io.

    Media Contacts:
    John Ely, CMO
    Heartland Industries
    john.ely@heartland.io
    or
    Ashton Maxfield
    Master Plan Communications
    ashton@masterplancommunications.com
    949.289.6493

    Source: Plato Data Intelligence

  • Heartland Wins USDA Grant to Expand Research on Regenerative Agriculture and Carbon Sequestration

    Heartland Wins USDA Grant to Expand Research on Regenerative Agriculture and Carbon Sequestration

    Heartland Industries is proud to announce that their team has secured a grant from the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Heartland’s ‘Hemp4Soil’ program was selected as the recipient of a $360,000 grant over 3 years to develop their soil innovation program.

    This grant will allow Heartland to partner with farming communities to advance research on soil health and carbon sequestration. Heartland’s research will be one of the most sophisticated programs to date that investigates the benefits of industrial hemp on soil health. This research will provide actionable conclusions that will impact the future of farming and regenerative agriculture.

    Out of 77 applicants, the NRCS allocated $15 million to conservation partners across the country for 19 new projects under the Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program. CIG is a competitive program that supports the development of new tools, approaches, practices, and technologies to further natural resource conservation on private lands. Heartland was the only hemp program chosen by the USDA.

    The Hemp4Soil program will quantify the impact of adding hemp and regenerative farming practices into crop rotations. Heartland has already identified farms across 10 states, and has the opportunity to expand their research program to more states for farmers interested in participating.

    Heartland and their partner farms will incorporate hemp into a soil health management system that has the potential to positively impact multiple aspects of soil biology including:
    – Reducing the need for herbicides, pesticides, and insecticides.
    – Reducing the usage of water.
    – Increasing the amount of carbon dioxide sequestered in the soil.
    – Accelerating soil remediation by removing toxins from the soil.
    – Increasing the nitrogen content of the soil.
    – Naturally replenishing nutrients that are typically added into soil.
    – Increasing the yields of other crops that are grown on the same acreage in following years.

    This project will test the impact of hemp and regenerative farming practices on soil that is used to grow traditional row crops like corn, soy, and wheat.

    Over the next 3 years, this USDA grant will help Heartland collect earth’s most comprehensive dataset on the impacts that industrial hemp has on soil and carbon sequestration. Eventually, this data will lay the framework for Heartland’s strategic ability to make a significant impact on the developing carbon markets.

    About Heartland

    Heartland is a biotech company that engineers hemp fibers as additives for plastics. Their team is building America’s first reliable industrial hemp supply chain to provide renewable additives for plastics manufacturers and resin suppliers. As an industrial hemp material processor, they work with farmers and manufacturers to ensure the product consistency of bio-based additives that can be used in raw material supply chains. Heartland’s materials help companies use stronger, lighter, cheaper, and more sustainable plastics. For more information, please visit https://www.heartland.io

    Media Contact:
    John Ely, CMO
    Heartland Industries
    john.ely@heartland.io