A SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS COMPANY
Grounding a New, Secure, Sustainable Supply Chain
Agri-Empire® Holdings Company (AEHCO) is focused on cultivating hemp and transforming the entire plant into valuable raw materials for manufacturers across multiple industries.
Through this approach, AEHCO supplies industrial feedstocks to external customers while also processing portions of its crop for its own downstream product lines in select markets.
Building a Competitive Domestic Hemp Industry
Why Yield Matters
High biomass yields are critical to the success of the heritage hemp industry because they:
Without yield improvement and seed cost reduction, farmers cannot generate sufficient economic returns to justify large-scale planting, and hemp raw materials remain too expensive to compete with entrenched industrial commodity imports.
Strategic Value Creation
K-W’s genetics platform is designed to create long-term competitive advantages through:
K-W believes breakthrough monoecious genetics are key to transforming hemp from a niche crop into a globally competitive industrial feedstock.
Consulting with Growers
Real industrial hemp is one of the most versatile crops in the world. It has over 45,000 known uses, spanning a wide range of industries, including but not limited to, biofuels, critical materials, paper, absorbents, construction, fiber, bioplastics and composites.
Our Family of Companies
Our companies form a vertically integrated group, researching genetics, growing hemp, processing the hemp raw material into production materials for manufacturing in a wide variety of industries, and supporting startups active in expanding the use of hemp as an industrial input.