Hemp, a resource that could replace steel

SBS Italian/Global Table 2019

Emilio Petrucci di Hesalis a Global Table 2019 Source: SBS Italian/Global Table 2019

Emilio Petrucci in 2017 founded Hesalis, a startup that creates technologies for agribusiness using hemp as its main material.


Emilio Petrucci started Hesalis with his friend Andrea Gobbo. He jokingly explains: "We woke up one morning with two big problems: we didn't know what to do with cannabis because we were tired of only smoke it, and because we were living in one of the Forty most polluted cities in Italy we thought, can we find a solution?".


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