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August 27, 20210

extractX Labs Create Global Opportunities for Partners

The Power of Partnership - extractX Labs Create Opportunities for Partners

Distillate produced in pharma-grade extractX turnkey extraction labs creates global opportunities for our partners. Focus on your highest ROI activities, such as cultivation, formulation and brand building and let extractX bring expertise and automation to your distillate production.

Our extraction-as-a-service solution was placed in Aviette’s facility to provide:

  • Highest Quality Distillate
  • $0 lab capex
  • Scalability

Read on to learn how our partner, Mark Loik, and his team at Aviette BioProcessing have leveraged their extractX mobile lab to create the highest-quality distillate and build their Kentucky Honey brand while expanding to provide Aviette BioProcessing white label solutions.

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The team at Aviette started investigating extraction options while attending industry conferences. They looked at different equipment but found that building an extraction lab is no easy task. It’s an intensive process that involves the services of specialized architects and engineers, a significant CapEx outlay, and patience: design and permitting through to project completion can take 12-24 months. extractX mobile labs were a much better solution for Aviette’s business and their proprietary brand, Kentucky Honey.

“Having the extractX team manage the entire extraction process means that I can spend my time on developing the market for Kentucky Honey,” says Mark. “Sales, and distribution relationships are critical to our success, and knowing that the engineering side is in competent hands allows me to focus on this key aspect of the business.”

– Mark Loik

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December 19, 20200

Mobile vs Own Build

Building an Own Lab or Partnering with Experienced Extraction Partner: What’s Right for Your Company?

A business approach to the science of cannabis and hemp extraction

Without question, cannabis is big business – and it continues to grow. With more regions legalizing hemp and cannabis production and increased demand for both recreational and medical products, the industry has a bright future in North America and beyond.

As markets mature, companies are expanding portfolios beyond dried flower to include cannabis-infused products like edibles, topicals, and beverages. Hemp-derived CBD products are thriving in the US, where the market is expected to reach $16B by 2023[1]. And vapes, after enduring health scares in late 2019, continue to gain market share.

Mobile Vs Own Build Fact 1

What’s more, physicians are now more open to exploring the potential of CBD, THC, and CBG for symptom relief. Given the negative health implications of smoking, cannabis and hemp therapeutics lean toward capsules, suppositories, and topicals.

All these trends point to the increased importance of extracts.

As commercial cultivators build or expand extraction capabilities, they recognize that efficiency will be the key factor in determining overall profitability. And in the face of ever-changing regulations and rapidly evolving technologies, this fundamental part of the process can be the difference between a successful company and shuttered doors.

Here, we detail two alternative approaches to establishing a commercial-grade extraction lab and offer up some guidance for business-savvy leaders in today’s competitive cannabis market.

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The challenges of building and running an efficient extraction lab

Designing and building a lab for cannabis and hemp extraction is no small undertaking. It’s an intensive process that involves the services of specialized architects and engineers, a significant CapEx outlay, and patience: design and permitting through to project completion can take 12-24 months.

  • Obtain a professional engineering report
  • Complete permit applications such as fire, electrical, and processing license and all local jurisdictional permits
  • Engage a GMP consultant report on the building and room layout
  • Develop operational SOPs
  • Construction
  • Source equipment including processing, lab equipment, HVAC, electrical, security systems, and tracking/automation equipment (hardware and software)
  • Install, calibrate, and test equipment
  • Hire and train scientists and lab staff
  • Review and update SOPs
  • Obtain third party peer review and GPP/ cGMP / EU GMP
  • Production
Mobile Vs Own Build Fact 2
Extraction equipment inside extractX mobile extraction lab

Extraction as a service: The self-contained mobile lab solution

Mobile lab solutions offer a turnkey alternative to the commitment of starting from the ground up. Owned and operated by a partner company, these self-contained suites are customized offsite and delivered ready to be placed inside an existing facility building or sit next to it.

Rather than taking on the inherent risks of a CapEx investment, companies that use extraction services follow a price-per-pound financial model with annual contracts and daily/monthly minimums built in.

  • The extraction-as-a-service model
  • A team of experienced scientists and engineers develops a process and secures equipment that functions seamlessly to deliver on contracted requirements
  • Labs are built to comply with local regulatory standards and come with documented SOPs
  • Labs are delivered to a facility ready to process within a short time of arrival.
  • Trained staff manage ongoing operations – 1 to 3 shifts, 6 days a week
  • Technology upgrades are the lab owner’s responsibility
  • Owned and operated by the partner company

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