Our Team is based in Europe and currently headed by Daniel Benhaim, an entrepreneur dedicated to following in his familiy's research.
A team of Doctors, Scientists and Corporations based mainly throughout Germany represent our production and manufacturing capabilities.
A wide ranging support team based as far and wide as Brussels, Perth and Texas have been, and continue to be invaluable in the success of our business. We always welcome others to join our happy team.
We are proud to be associated with www.zelfoaustralia.com - biodegradable 100% hemp plastics.
The story of how our team came to exist.
Hemp Plastics (UK) Ltd. was founded in 1996 by Paul Benhaim. This Company was supported by a global team who backed Paul's vision: "to offer a plant-based alternative to petro-chemical based plastics."
Paul's work within the industrial hemp industry has been pioneering since his first introduction through a store in Montreal, Canada in 1991. Here he learnt about the nutritional hemp seed and continued until he launched Europe's first hemp seed snack bar. This bar was taken from vision, through product and upscaling until it reached the Supermarket Chains in the UK and world-wide some years later.
During this Journey Paul realised that not only is industry plagued with transporting products globally, but also with a packaging problem that is often dumped on third world countries. Only recently is such waste issues reaching our 'first world' countries bringing the issue to our attention.
Rather than fight against existing systems Paul searched for a fibre based alternative. Without expecting Hemp to be a source for this it was shown through numerous studies that hemp fibres did have their use in re-enforcing recycled plastic materials and in totally substituting plastic in other materials.
A 'Frisbee'- the High Fly disc was created as an example of what could be done in the UK. A team in Austria brought a 100% hemp-stone substitute to the table and now various departments in Germany and France have created numerous polymer, hemp and other bast fibre compounds.
Here, at hemp plastics we now turn these materials into products suitable for market by creating links with manufacturer's and end customers.
This vision continues, with personal and family funding. Since Paul was later head-hunted to recreate his (hemp) food success in Australia, where he is now based. His brother, Daniel now pushes the boundaries by bringing to us the first commercial hemp plastic products- the CD and DVD trays you can read about on this site. Distributors, wholesalers and agents are being sought for these first products.
Paul was then offered an opportunity called Zelfo. For the next part of the story read www.zelfoaustralia.com
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