Manufacturing

This two-part series outlines the essential factors to consider when selecting vapor cartridge, disposable vape, and battery hardware.

With a $3.5 billion investment plan, the company aims to become a leader in onshore API manufacturing, building DEA- and FDA-compliant facilities.

Here, we bring you our top four recent news articles, covering the cannabis and hemp beverage industry trends, cannabis hyperemesis syndrome, and research studies on brain function after cannabis use and on cannabis for inflammatory bowel disease.

This webinar explored trends, challenges, and marketing hurdles in the developing cannabis and hemp beverages industry.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

This article investigates the chiral method development screening for the enantiomeric separation of synthetic CBD on polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases with both normal-phase and reversed phase mobile phases, using HPLC and UHPLC.

In this article, regulatory requirements are explored as they are meant to create confidence that cannabis and cannabis-infused products are safe to use.

The new processed cannabis products continue to attract consumers—but black market influence causes hesitancy.

This study focuses on a step-by-step optimization of commercial scale preparative HPLC purification of cannabinoids, specifically cannabidiol, starting with stationary reversed-phase screening, followed by method optimization.

Do you know how much waste the cannabis industry produces yearly in the United States? Consumers might be aware that some cannabis packaging is recyclable, but how many are aware of the need for large-scale recycling programs to reduce the amount of packaging heading to harmful landfills? In this interview, O’Neil Rudolph, founder of cannachange, discusses how their new program connects consumers and dispensaries with accessible, sustainable recycling in the cannabis industry through an easy-to-use app.

Working with Doctors for Cannabis Regulation and other stakeholders, David L. Nathan, MD, proposed the Universal Cannabis Product Symbol (UCPS) in 2019. After its publication in 2020, a broad discussion with various stakeholders led to a series of changes to the UCPS. Working with the standards organization ASTM, the authors of this paper co-designed a modified version of the UCPS, which was renamed the International Intoxicating Cannabis Product Symbol (IICPS). This article presents the IICPS and next steps for the industry to start implementing its use.

Unrivaled Brands recently announced the launch of their new state of the art cultivation facility operating in Oakland, California.

A closer look at the fundamental studies of tablet formation that are critical processes to ensure successful manufacturing of THC and CBD tablet dosage forms.

This article proposes alternative and effective cleaning solutions for cannabis and hemp processing equipment.

How can cannabis businesses start formulating like the pharmaceutical industry and why it’s important to do so.

Isolated CBD, full-spectrum oil, and even smokable hemp are all being diluted down by a draconian regulatory framework that needs to be changed to facilitate growth, innovation, and prosperity throughout the industry.