The 150 km moat
Decortication economics collapse beyond ~150 km of farm-to-plant trucking. We map every catchment so you can see who actually wins on margin.
Iberian biobased construction · v0.1 · May 2026
The hemp value chain
has 43 operators
and zero coordination.
MOCA maps every decorticator, hempcrete factory, and grower cooperative across Europe — with 150 km catchment circles you can actually see. The data isn't proprietary, just unaggregated.
43
operators mapped
17
decorticators
13
block factories
13
grower coops
What we do differently
Three things every existing player misses. We built around them.
Iberia's single-node problem
Cânhamor (Garvão) is the only decorticator in Iberia. The Spanish hemp belt — Aragón, Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia — sits outside any catchment. That's the gap.
Architects can't get a price
Across 14 audited Iberian players, exactly one publishes a price table. Specifiers feasibility-study in the dark. We don't.
Live map
Every operator. Every catchment. One screen.
17 decorticators with their 150 km economic catchments drawn. 13 block manufacturers. 13 grower cooperatives. France is one tight overlapping mesh — Iberia is a single node.
Open the full map →The research that built this
Four dossiers. Open-source under our editorial cadence.
Foundations
Hemp 101 + global market 2025-26
What hemp actually is, EU vs US regulatory thresholds, the inflection signals (Kingspan/HempFlax, EPBD, CRCF) and the players already winning.
Read →Regulatory
Portugal industrial-hemp regulatory map
DGAV jurisdiction, Portaria 83/2021, the 5-ha minimum, ITeCons CE-marking path, CAP subsidies. 90-day checklist included.
Read →Strategy
Lean entry playbook (Iberia, ≤€50k)
Ranked by capex envelope: from €0-€5k matching layers up to €30-50k micro-block production. The single best play if you have €15k.
Read →Audit
Portuguese & Iberian competitor site audit
14 sites audited. The 11 patterns everyone gets wrong. The 10 things our build does that they don't.
Read →Building with hemp in Iberia?
Architects, developers, processors, grower coops — if you're in this value chain we want to hear from you. We're cataloguing supplier capacity, MOQs, lead times, and BIM-grade specs.
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