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A recently published white paper delves into data on market and consumer trends for pre rolls.

Custom Cones USA Examines Data on the Current Pre Roll Market Industry

In this interview, Raphael Wechsler, Founder of Wroots Botanicals LLC, Sustainability Lead for Studio Voltaire LLC, and former Director of Partnerships and Operations and Sustainability Committee Chair for the Cannabis Association of New York, discusses the challenges of cannabis packaging and its sustainability in the industry.

Cannabis Packaging 101: Sustainable Innovations and Challenges

The 23rd episode in the monthly webinar series discusses vape manufacturing, consumers, and solutions to health and safety risks.

Cannabis Vaporizer Safety, Standards, and Common Issues: Insights from a GMP Collective Webinar

Lo Friesen is the founder, CEO, and Chief Extractor of Heylo. With a background in chemistry and clinical research, Lo was inspired to explore cannabis as a medicine and to enter the emerging industry. She joined Eden Labs, a leading CO

 extraction equipment manufacturer to support and expand a Research and Development department. There she managed the development of their latest and greatest CO

 extraction system. In 2017, after working with Eden Labs and another cannabis processor, Lo launched Heylo with a mission to help people get more out of life with cannabis.

The cannabis industry continues to demand high purity cannabis extracts at a low cost. Here, we investigate the opportunities and challenges as manufacturers implement automation and scaling up production.

Automation and  All-In-One Systems

On October 25th, 2023, the GMP Collective presented the latest installment in their webinar series, When Things Go Wrong.

Industry Expert Insights: A GMP Collective Webinar on Navigating Risks in Cannabis Processing

This article explores chromatographic separation techniques for the efficient purification of cannabinoids along with the benefits and drawbacks of these separation methods.

Advancements in Chromatographic Separation Techniques for Efficient Cannabinoid Analysis and Purification

This piece reviews the rise of distillate in the market, how this has helped and hurt manufacturers, and predictions for the future.

Why Is Everything Distillate?

Gretchen Schimelpfenig is a Senior Energy Engineer at Energy Resources Integration, LLC where she implements energy efficiency programs and provides direct consulting services. She is the former Technical Director of the Resource Innovation Institute and manager of the organization’s Technical Advisory Council. She authored RII’s Lighting, HVAC, and Facility Design & Construction Best Practices Guides for Controlled Environment Agriculture and the Lighting, HVAC, and Controls Best Practices Guides for Cannabis Cultivation. She has worked with partners like the University of Vermont to optimize commercial and industrial buildings, including greenhouses and controls systems used for academic research on hemp and other cultivars. She has a B.S. in Architectural Engineering from the University of Wyoming and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University. She is a licensed Civil Professional Engineer in California and Vermont.

This column expresses how cannabis facilities that invest in RCx projects can enhance equipment reliability and worker safety, improve conditions for plant growth and development, increase canopy yields, and reduce maintenance costs.

Retrocommissioning Pays Dividends

is a Senior Scientist at Agilent Technologies and a Visiting Professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Experts within the global cannabis and hemp industries discuss the importance of testing and regulations and sustainable measures that can reduce the sector’s environmental impact.

How Manufacturing, Regulations, and Sustainability Are Affecting the Cannabis and Hemp-Based Products Industry

is a Full Professor and Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at The University of Texas (UT) at Arlington.

In the work presented here, the authors evaluated the effects of variable red-light exposure on the phytochemical content of four Group III cannabis cultivars.