An $8.4 million award from the US Department of Energy is back-on-track for Idaho’s Hempitecture, Inc., the company said. Things got complicated after the fourth quarter of 2024, when the company was told they won the award, administered through DOE's Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC), to build a hemp processing facility in eastern Tennessee. 

“Beyond my wildest dreams,” is how Cameron McIntosh described the fruits of his decision with his wife three years ago to license and distribute the French EREASY spray-applied hemp-lime application system.