Cannabis Equipment News
157 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsCannabis Equipment News is an interview series with growers, processors, manufacturers, distributors and other professionals who work within the legal cannabis industry. We provide answers to the challenges cannabis professionals face every day and discuss the industry as it continues to develop.
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MCR Labs Is More Than a 'Dark Box'
February 05, 2021 23:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBThis week, MCR Labs President Michael Kahn and Director of Business Development Jonathan Wani discuss how they protect cannabis consumers and help manufacturers improve — and protect — their businesses. The company started in 2013 when Kahn left his role as a chemist in the pharmaceutical industry to create a public health-centered lab that provides accurate cannabis data. Kahn wanted MCR to be more than a traditional lab, which often operate like a “dark box'' where samples come in and da...
Ozone Creates 'Lightning in a Box' to Sanitize Cannabis Facilities
January 29, 2021 20:00 - 33 minutes - 23.5 MBThis week, Sannel Patel, the senior vice president of engineering at Ozone Solutions, discusses how his company designs and manufactures custom products that use "lightning in a box" to sanitize cannabis operations. The company started in odor remediation, primarily targeting hog farms — which have a pretty notorious scent. The company has since gone on to create more than 400 ozone generators, monitors and injection systems that eradicate viruses and bacteria while providing odor control, ...
Cannabis Industry 'Drinking Out of a Fire Hose'
January 21, 2021 20:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBThis week, Lezli Engelking, founder of the Foundation of Cannabis Unified Standards (FOCUS) discusses why she left her successful career running a dispensary to create an organization dedicated to developing cannabis-specific good manufacturing practices. As Bloom Dispensaries went from single-digit employees to a staff in the triple digits, Engelking realized that the Arizona company desperately needed business help. If her vertically-integrated company suffered from turnover, training an...
Green Flower Built High-Demand Cannabis Curriculums from Nothing
January 19, 2021 18:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBThis week, Joe Barnard, chief academic officer, and Daniel Kalef, VP for higher education, discuss Green Flower's cannabis education platform that offers everything from one-off training sessions to educational programs at nine universities across the United States. The programs offer students the ability to become certified in cannabis cultivation, business, law and policy and healthcare. The company started out as a direct-to-consumer educational portal, trying to educate people on the be...
Aerospace Engineer Bails on Boeing to Build Elite Extraction Equipment
January 19, 2021 17:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBThis week, Jack Naito, president of Luna Technologies, talks about why he left a career as an R&D engineer at Boeing to design and manufacture cannabis extraction equipment. Luna specializes in hydrocarbon extraction. Its IO Extractor is a patented, automated system that can process up to 25 pounds of plant feedstock per hour to produce high-quality, craft extracts. While many companies try to make the extraction process safer through automation, many solutions just add capabilities to th...
Many Jumped into the Cannabis Industry, but Few Are Making Money
January 19, 2021 15:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBThis week, Shawn Honaker, the owner of Yeti Farms, discusses life on his organic outdoor cultivation facility in Pueblo, Colorado. Honaker’s farm was the first large-scale outdoor cultivation facility licensed by the state. Honaker has an eclectic background, with stints as a financial planner and salesman, before he started his own oil and gas business, sold it, and retired as a 30-year-old millionaire. Honaker overcame alcohol addiction and homelessness — and used life lessons from growi...
Building a Twinkie Machine for the Cannabis Industry
January 19, 2021 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this exclusive interview, Cullen Raichart, CEO and founder of GreenBroz, discusses how he designs and manufactures equipment to help usher cannabis companies into a larger automated landscape. Raichart started in the industry as a grower, but he quickly realized that he had “brown thumbs.” However, he was a design engineer by trade and found new opportunities to make machinery for friends and fellow growers. He built the first Alchemist Trimmer in his garage, and it was the birth of an “...