The only limit on biomass processed per day is the equipment you use. The equipment’s ability to complete the task in an efficient and repeatable manner is based on optimizing the fundamental process parameters.
The difference between our market and the other fully industrialized markets is that engineers have payed relatively little attention to hemp/cannabis…until now
@TheGratefulPhil Thank you for the attached link, it was amazing to read! This forum just gets better and better An ode to all the days still to be lost reading the treads here, amazing group of people sharing awesome insights from a range of backgrounds!
This community is amazing—there’s a shared sense of excitement and infatuation with a relatively undefined industry—and some of the dialogue that gets shared can be as insightful as a comparable research paper.
Even having been here from nearly the beginning, I spend hours at a time using the search bar, finding things I previously skipped.
There’s a company in Illinois that has been in botanical extraction for like 80 years. Seen a press release a while ago that said they were converting some of their production lines to CBD. If I find it again i’ll edit this post, or maybe someone else can chime in.
Thank you everyone, with a few more facilities mentioned we can make a table with ‘The Top 10’ of the biggest hemp for cbd processing facilities. Set by the stated capacity, then we can speculate % fill.
Should we be considering The Plug Supply at stated biomass processing of 200,000lb a week on a possible top 10 list?
Do you think the existance of a single system this large will have a significant impact on the price of CBD in the US in the coming year??
He’s got facilities and equipment on site to go from incoming hemp bales on trucks to extraction, preprocessing, distillation and soon crystallization at a rate of 55 gallons distillate per 25 minutes.
If they keep that up 24 hours a day during peak season that’s got to have a big impact seeing as they’re the only ones even close to this scale right now.
I’m also wondering about what @MrRandy alluded to earlier in this thread. Who’s going to buy all the product? Will demand for CBD continue to increase or will it level out? How will that effect an operation as large as this?
Tell me about it. How much CBD can people possibly use? How many CBD users can we honestly expect to exist in the US next year and how much will they consume? Apparently around 1/7th of adult Americans say they’ve used CBD. That’s about 100g per CBD user annually out of this one facility. You definitely won’t be able to get people to eat all that in 15mg kombuchas!
There was a lab debuting in Eastern Oregon that i was talking to a year ago, with 30,000 lb/hr capacity and plans to grow. I don’t remember the name unfortunately so i can’t get more specifics.
My two issues with hexane: super bad health effects, especially with chronic exposure and it jumps you back from C1D2 to C1D1 so at scale you’re talking a way bigger capital investment for equipment