Single origin · Vichada
From the Orinoquía to global mills.
Naut Fiber is produced in a single Colombian origin — the savannas of Vichada, on the eastern plains of the Andes. Equatorial latitude, year-round growing windows, and a six-year operating history.
Talk to our teamWhy Vichada
Why Vichada works for industrial hemp fiber.
Equatorial latitude
At 5°N, Vichada operates on a stable 12-hour photoperiod year-round. Combined with the bimodal rainfall regime of the Orinoquía savannas, this enables agricultural windows simply not available in temperate hemp-producing regions of Europe, China or North America.
Single-origin scale
Naut cultivates across 300+ hectares in Cumaribo, Vichada — a single, mapped, chain-of-custody-controlled origin. Every fiber lot can be traced to its cultivation block, not to a mixed bag of dozens of contracted farms.
Nearshore to North America
Colombia holds a free trade agreement with the United States and ocean access to both Atlantic and Pacific ports — making Naut a structural nearshore option for North American mills sourcing alternatives to long-haul Asian supply.
Operation in numbers
The Naut operation, today.
2019
Operating since
300+ ha
Cultivation area
5°N
Equatorial latitude
BIC
Governance framework
Plant to port
Built end-to-end. Documented at every step.
Every kilogram of Naut Fiber moves through five documented stages before leaving Colombia. Each stage has its own quality protocol and chain-of-custody record.
- 01
Cultivation
Field cultivation across our Vichada operation, with agronomic monitoring and yield tracking by cultivation block.
- 02
Harvest & retting
Controlled harvest and dew retting under tropical conditions — optimized over six operating years.
- 03
Decortication
Mechanical separation of bast fiber, short fiber and hurd, with refining steps for each output grade.
- 04
Grading & QC
Laboratory analysis by our ISO 17025 partner network, lot-level Certificate of Analysis, and grade assignment.
- 05
Export logistics
Documented packaging and port-of-origin export from Colombian Atlantic or Pacific gateways, with full export documentation.
BIC origin
A different kind of corporate governance.
Naut operates under the Colombian legal framework for SAS BIC — Sociedad por Acciones Simplificada de Beneficio e Interés Colectivo. The BIC designation, regulated by Colombian Law 1901 of 2018, is the legal-statutory equivalent of B-Corp certification, with binding obligations to environmental, social and governance impact that are audited annually as part of our corporate filings.
For sourcing teams operating under EU CSRD, EUDR, US SEC climate disclosure or Japanese stewardship frameworks, BIC governance is not an asterisk on a marketing page — it is a public legal commitment.
Next step
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