IMMAE Press Published 06/10/2009 - 11:25 a.m. EST 

(PressMediaWire) - Irvine, CA - IMMAE announced today as part of its 2009 push for environmentally friendly technologies that it has partnered with nationally renowned hemp expert Chris Boucher to hold two important workshops at the August IMMAE event

Mr. Boucher will lead two seminars, one for the use of hemp in the textile base of MMA. The second seminar will focus on the use of hemp in nutrition and dietary supplement products. These seminars will be designed to assist MMA manufacturers and service providers in evaluating when and where hemp based resources can be added to their catalogs. Mr. Boucher’s credentials will ensure that these seminars are informative and lucrative in terms of education and contacts garnered. These hemp based seminars are part of a wider push for green technologies and environmentally friendly materials.

Adding to this green push is OnTheMat.com’s manufacturing wing which will be producing prototype equipment made completely from hemp materials. OnTheMat.Com will produce a grappling gi, a kicking shield, and complete punching bag from various hemp textile materials. This will be a follow on to OnTheMat.com’s capability to “white label” hemp based products for all of the manufacturers in the MMA industry. Once complete this will allow manufacturers to add hemp based products to their catalogs slowly and methodically leveraging OnTheMat.com’s full manufacturing and distribution capabilities.

About the Speaker

Christopher Boucher is an Eco American Entrepreneur with a seemingly insatiable appetite for saving the earth. Founding one of the first hemp companies, Hempstead Co. Est. in 1991, he pioneered the Hemp Industry selling hemp to Converse, Walt Disney, The Beatles, Dave Mathews, Ted Turner Foundation and the Bob Marley Family. Hempstead Co. imported more than 140,000 lbs. of hemp seed oil and hemp fabric.

In 1994, against all odds Boucher obtained legal permits from the USDA Research Center in Brawley CA, in association with Imperial County Agricultural Commission to become the first American to grow hemp in over 40 years. It was an experimental industrial hemp farm for food and fiber. This enabled the foundation for the the very first California Hemp Farming Legislation, the "California State True Hemp Farming Act" of 1995. In 2000, Boucher helped take the industrial hemp to the Navajo Nation Window Rock, AZ to successfully pass an Industrial hemp law to recognize the need to grow hemp on the Navajo reservation. Boucher is known as a world leading industrial Hemp expert.

Today there is a Federal Hemp Bill in congress that would give states the right to grow Boucher continues to import raw hemp materials, fabrics, clothing, seed and food products into USA. Currently he is consulting with nutritional companies and textile companies who want to use hemp in their products.

For more information on Mr. Boucher, please visit www.hempsteads.com

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