Equipment Snapshot: Green Mill Supercritical has introduced the Parallel Pro, designed for increased capacity without forfeiting the control and precision required to produce high quality oils.

Parallel Pro provides maximum control over pressure, temperature, and flow rate during supercritical CO₂ extractions. It also enables producers to increase yields in roughly the same amount of time required for much smaller yields with other machines.

Parallel Pro offers the following features:

• Doubling the throughput and flow rate of Green Mill Supercritical’s SFE Pro machine, at least 130 pounds per 24 hours

• A maximum pressure of 6,000 pounds per square inch (psi)

• A maximum flow rate of 1 kilogram per minute (measured with a mass flow meter)

• A Weekender Mode that can yield an additional four labor-free extractions every week

• 3D-printed heat exchanger that heats CO₂ directly, which boosts condition accuracy in the system

• The same automation, compact footprint, and extraction efficiency of the SFE Pro line of machines

Parallel Pro Extraction Technology

Company: Green Mill Supercritical

Website: www.greenmillsupercritical.com

Equipment Snapshot: The BatchPro-SA batching automation and control application will eliminate error, ensure lot and material traceability, and optimize throughput and profitability.

The custom engineering of each batching automation application ensures that the automation system is just what customers need and want, while ensuring maximum performance in terms of accuracy and throughput efficiency. Remote supervisory control using another software app, WebCentral from Sterling Systems, allows for easy-to-use browser based operation, report generation and exporting of data to integrate with corporate ERP systems is available.

BatchPro-SA Batching Application

Company: Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc.

Website: www.sterlingcontrols.com

Vibratory settling helps product flow into containers while a dual-lane design rejects under and overweights. In addition, the system easily integrates with multihead weighers. Several combinations ensure accurate weights every fill.

The system features a simple design that enables thorough cleaning. A sanitary funnel and conveyor system ensures hygienic filling with quick changeover while a stainless steel frame and open base allow for easy cleaning. No-tool star wheels and rails enable quick product changeovers.

Cannabis Jar Filling System

Company: Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery, Inc.

Website: www.spee-dee.com

Equipment Snapshot: Spee-Dee’s cannabis jar filling system allows manufacturers to fill up to 40 jars per minute. Accurate filling and weighing is made possible with a dual tare gross weighing system while a sanitary design keeps product safe—all at high speeds.

Double Cone Tumble Blender

Company: Charles Ross & Son Company.

Website: www.mixers.com

Equipment Snapshot: The ROSS Double Cone Tumble Blender (Model DCB) is designed for large-scale yet intimate blending of free-flowing solids in a full suite of laboratory, pilot and production sizes.

In a highly repeatable process, minor and micro ingredients are thoroughly distributed throughout the batch more gently than in the more common V-shaped geometry without damaging fragile or sensitive components. Rated for vacuum up to 29.5"Hg, the jacketed 75-cubic foot Double Cone Blender (Model DCB-75, below) heats and dries product with superior efficiency as it is being blended. Other features include gas purging capability, a 16-inch, pneumatically-operated discharge valve, 5-passage rotary union, explosion-proof brake motor and PLC controls.

The foodproof Aspergillus Detection LyoKit is easy to use due to lyophilized reagents. It also offers the highest specificity, as false positive and false negative results are excluded.

The test is validated on all relevant cannabis matrices: chocolate, gummy bears, flowers, tinctures, oils, powders, shampoo and seeds, among others — no inhibition of PCR. It has a lowest detection limit of 5-10 cfu of Aspergillus per sample.

Assays are available for use on the LightCycler 480, LightCycler 96, AriaMx, Mx3005P, CFX96, QuantStudio 5, Applied Biosystems 7500 Fast, Dualo 32 R2 platforms.

foodproof Aspergillus Detection LyoKit

Company: BIOTECON Diagnostics

Website: www.bc-diagnostics.com

Equipment Snapshot: Within two days (including enrichment), the foodproof multiplex assay independently identifies four species of pathogenic Aspergillus — A. flavus, A. fumigatus, A. niger, and A. terreus — in a range of cannabis sample backgrounds and using just one PCR reaction.