hey guys Nick with precision here and
today I'm gonna teach you a brief
overview on how to make every extract
Under the Sun so what I want to start
off talking about is live resin and why
live resin is so relevant in the market
and why you guys hear this this term
being thrown around rather commonly so
live resin the entire process really
takes into account harvesting the plant
while it's still technically alive so
you're harvesting the plant you're not
drying the plant and what you're
actually doing is taking those flowers
and putting them into a vacuum type food
saver device and freezing them right
away so you can imagine like harvesting
fresh blueberries or strawberries
obviously you want to pick at the peak
of ripeness so that you have the maximum
amount of terpenes the maximum amount of
smell flavor and all the positive
attributes of that plant and you're
actually freezing that in time by
putting it into a freezer once you put
it into the vacuum bag now it's very
common for some people to deep freeze
that could be all the way down negative
40 negative 80 I would say most commonly
it's somewhere between negative 10 and
negative 40 so once we have this
material harvested and we have it frozen
in vacuum bags ultimately what we're
going to do is we're going to extract it
and we're going to extract it with
hydrocarbons the reason that we use
hydrocarbons is because it's a very
gentle process the process of using
hydrocarbons will actually take those
cannabinoids and those terpenes out
without disturbing a lot of the other
plant-based matrices that are in there
and our result ultimately is a extract
that is very very close to the native
plant so when you smell the extract of
the plant that we've extracted via a
live resin process what will happen is
you'll actually smell the original
orientation of that plant it you'll have
those original flavors and they'll be
extremely robust extremely profound in
the way that you're actually smelling
and almost tasting it when you consume
when you consume the product now the
best analogy is if we keep that
freshness preserved we eliminate the
oxidation the degradation and all the
things that can kind of take that fresh
fruit so to speak or that fresh can
and turn it into rotten cannabis so to
speak or rotten fruit and that's
oxidation that's degradation from the
environment that could be disruption or
degradation from high temperature
solvents so with live resin were always
focused on preserving that natural state
of the plant we're focused on freezing
that that biomass right away and we're
focused on ultimately extracting it at
very cold temperatures to retain our
terpenes to extract the cannabinoids in
a very gentle fashion and ultimately to
have a highly highly desired end product
that's artisanal and a vast majority of
consumers enjoy in terms of theirs their
satisfaction of consumption as well as
their ability to just actually taste and
smell the product once it's been on the
shelf for a while so that's just an
overview on live resin and the next
thing I'd really like to talk about and
give you guys an overview on is Sheppard
so you may have seen shatter in the
retail dispensaries and things like that
and ultimately with shatter we're trying
to get that end product from a sort of a
plant based entrapment of those
cannabinoids and those terpenes to a
glass-like finish so it's very common at
room temperature for shatter you hit it
and it'll shatter almost like a piece of
glass to get that consistency there's
certain aspects of extraction certain
things that you want to deal with
shatter first and foremost is always
made with hydrocarbon and the
preparation of the biomass is almost
always under every circumstance dried
very very very very well almost to a
five percent or lower humidity we want
to avoid a lot of that water that would
be pulled out with the solvent and we
ultimately want to extract that product
at a cold temperature in order to avoid
a lot of the lipids and fat profiles
that you might create by extracting with
a warmer temperature solvent hydrocarbon
is obviously ideal for this because not
only can we extract with hydrocarbon
cold but it's hydrophobic so that the
water is going to be separated very
easily from the hydrocarbon but in
addition to that it's going to extract
that cannabinoid profile and it'll
extract those terpenes with leaving
behind because of the cold temperature a
lot of those fats waxes and other
adulterants that we don't want in our
end product so when making shad are
ultimately extracting the dry biomass
with the cold solvent we're going to
take that to a finishing process which
is called vacuum oven purging so once we
have our shatter and we want a vacuum
oven purge it what we do is we we spread
this out on vacuum oven trays and we go
into a very low vacuum very deep vacuum
with a mild temperature increase from
atmospheric so a temperature increase
depending on methodologies it ranges
vary widely depending an operator but it
could be anywhere from 75 Fahrenheit to
will say 105 degrees Fahrenheit would be
a common operational range and we're
always trying to get to a very deep
vacuum we're talking about 28 29 inches
of mercury very very deep in terms of
being able to purge out those residual
solvents so not only do we have a
solvent free product but purging out the
residual solvents and the terpenes is
also going to take away some of that
some of that added viscosity and and and
really get that product to the point
where it's like a glass-like consistency
and we commonly call those as they're
coming out of the oven slabs sometimes
they look like Swiss cheese sometimes
they'll they'll be you know a perfect
slab of glass sometimes they'll they'll
flip over and it can vary between a a
complete glass like type consistency and
it can also vary to you know sort of
like Jolly Rancher or warm Jolly Rancher
type consistency but the good part about
this process is to make shatter
using hydrocarbon you can generally
still make a very good end product on
biomass that's been properly dried
properly preserved even though it does
have maybe a little bit of degradation
it does have a little bit of oxidation
of the cannabinoids and loss of the
terpenes it's okay because you can still
make a very very credible saleable
product that's widely consumed in the
form of shatter and optimizing that
process as a way that you can create a
lot of revenue
extraction company so the next thing
that I'd like to talk about is diamonds
Terp sauce there's all sorts of crazy
names the sauce that they coined for
this type of extract and really what
we're after on this type of extract is
terpene preservations so it starts off
very much like a live let live resin
process in the fact that we're
harvesting these these buds or these
flowers in a live state we're freezing
them and we're ultimately preserving
those terpenes because terpenes are very
volatile compounds in general too much
heat they evaporate they get degraded by
heat they get degraded by processes that
get degraded by solvent so we want to
use a very light solvent like a light
hydrocarbon and in this case mostly
moving towards a propane dominant blend
propane has a much lower boiling point
which means it's much more volatile in
terms of removing it from the end
product easier to remove from the end
product is another way to word that so
ultimately extracting this this this
live resin like prepared biomass with a
propane dominant or a lighter
hydrocarbon dominant blend at low
temperatures and ultimately what we end
up with is we end up with this this
extract that really becomes a sort of my
seller of the cannabinoids but also a
very amount high amount of terpene
content and as I stated before the
terpenes are quite volatile and you sort
of heat any sort of degradation even
just being an atmosphere for too long
can degrade those terpenes so imagine
this kind of cannabinoid and terpenes
sludge coming out of the machine because
we've preserved them up to that point
immediately usually what's done with
sauce and live resin is you're taking
the terpenes and generally spinning them
off in a classified centrifuge the
reason we use the classified centrifuge
is because there's still a little bit of
solvent in there so we just want to be
cautious but what that ultimately does
is it spins off the terpenes and it
separates a terpene layer from the
cannabinoid layer you separate those two
now there's a variety of different
production processes that go back into
this in some cases if you're if you're
doing crystallization you can leave a
little bit of solvent in there and you
can ultimately recrystallize the THC a
through a supersaturation
you can ultimately take the cannabinoids
off from that terpene fraction and
decarboxylate the cannabinoids and then
add the terpenes back in and that's how
you make live resin pens so for example
you know once that decarboxylated
cannabinoid profile is there you take
your original terpenes blend them back
in and it's going to give you the
viscosity in order for the pen or the
vape cartridge to be able to uptake and
atomized that extract and make a again
this is an extract that is absolutely in
line with the original orientation of
the plant the original smells flavors
terpenes and the uniqueness it's very
cool because you have such variety
within these plants and to capture the
native essence of that plant and to
reconstitute it and to several
consumable forms is a massive value add
for an extraction business and if you
look at some of the best extraction
companies in the world that do this this
is exactly what they do and this is
exactly how they do it so on the flip
side of what we've spoken about here
which has mainly been our teas and we'll
type extracts and hydrocarbon extracts
let's talk about crude oil let's talk
about distillate let's talk about the
high value type extract so crude oil is
exactly what it sounds if you think
about crude oil coming out of the ground
in like petrochemicals or something like
that
it's a oil that has a lot of adulterants
in it it has it needs a lot of
refinement it needs to go through
further processes in order to be
consumable or in a consumable form so
what we're looking for with crude oil
and extraction is really any type of
biomass but preferred dried biomass
low-grade biomass that can be purchased
cheap and ultimately refined into
something of high value so if we've got
for example you know a thousand pounds
of biomass sitting it's been sitting for
six months we're not going to be able to
make really a credible shatter product
out of that we're not going to be able
to make a credible live resin definitely
not going to be able to make any sort of
high terpene extract or anything out of
that but what we can do is we can
maximize the extraction of the can
out of that biomass with a generally
warmer solvent of course there's ways
that you can do it with a cold solvent
and this can be done with hydrocarbon or
ethanol this is where ethanol becomes
really applicable it becomes really easy
it becomes really user friendly and
cost-conscious and this is where you can
still use hydrocarbon but not as
efficient of a method as ethanol for
bulk crude oil so what we actually do is
we take our biomass we load it in and
we'll we'll saturate it with ethanol for
a given amount of time ultimately we
take that micelle a stream is what we
call it which is the cannabinoids and
all the other stuff that comes out of
the plant along with the solvent and we
evaporate that solvent off once that
solvents evaporated off ultimately we
have our crude oil now this crude oil
has got all sorts of chlorophyll and
whatever came along with the plant and
any sort of adulterants in there
generally it'll have a lot of fats waxes
and lipids in there that generally come
out of the plant in extraction so
there's a variety of refinement
processes one of the most common
processes to refine is to get to
distillate and that's what I'd like to
chat about next so let's talk about guys
how that distillate actually gets made
now distillate is a process that's made
through distillation so quite commonly
or to break it down in really simple
terms if you're putting a pot of water
on the stove and ultimately that water
is boiling and turning into vapor that
that's a process of distillation that
water is being distilled into the
atmosphere in the form of vapors so
that's exactly what we're trying to do
with the cannabinoids in the crude oil
we're actually trying to take those
cannabinoids we're trying to vaporize
them and ultimately we're going to
recollect them in a more concentrated
form but before we can distill there's
several other things we need to do we
need to make sure that there's no
adulterants in that distillate or in
that crude oil that are going to inhibit
making the distillate so those things
can be waxes that can be chlorophylls
that can be fats lipids all sorts of
weird stuff that can come over in a very
rough crude extraction the way that we
were finding that is we come
the use winterization processes we also
commonly use fine filtration there's
guys that use what are called adsorbent
switches could be diatomaceous earth or
activated carbons in order to clean up
some of these undesirables from this
crude oil in order to make it into
distillate but ultimately once it's
passed through a distillation process
it's normally used a what's called a
fractional distillation or a white film
distillation process when you're at
scale we're taking those cannabinoids if
we're evaporating them and we're recon
--scent rating them so what happens is
we take this very very poor quality
biomass turn it into a really rough
crude oil but ultimately extract the
we'll call it the goodies but the
cannabinoids out of that crude oil and
concentrate them in a very refined
format that's that can be remixed in and
reconstituted into several different
products this process is awesome because
it can literally take any grade of
biomass and turn it into a shelf-stable
replicatable scalable repeatable product
that has a consistency across the board
for end-users expectations for example
you get Pepsi every time it tastes like
Pepsi every time you don't want it to
taste like Coke one time or taste like
you know RC Cola the next time you want
consistency and a repeatable fashion for
which to make your product so less
product that I want to talk about is
isolates and isolates are made from
actually in almost all cases distillate
so we're taking this crude oil remember
as we spoke about with distillate
refining it into a distilled product so
we have this distilled product and the
potency of that can be anywhere from say
a little very low-end seventy-five
percent on the very high-end ninety-five
percent but it's not 100% pure and what
we're gonna do with that distillate is
we're actually going to go through a
secondary refinement process called
crystal a crystallization isolation of
these individual cannabinoids so each
one of these cannabinoids has a
molecular structure and based upon what
that molecular structure looks like we
can come up with ideal ways to actually
crystallize and crash out of solution
these individual molecules this is a
very common process in chemistry it's
used very widely and it's ultimately how
CBD isolate is made it's ultimately how
th CA diamonds are made it's a process
of crystallization so how we do that is
we use a selective solvent the selective
solvent most often used is hydrocarbon
very often it's either butane or pentane
in order to make these these isolates
and what happens is you actually take
your distillate and you mix it into
either the pentane or the butane if it's
THC a depending on what you're trying to
do and you have your distillate or your
fine cannabinoids back in matrices at
that point it's back in that that now
that micellar of hydrocarbon and
cannabinoids and what happens is over
time and over a temperature ramp spike
curve and over a slow period of time
what these these cannabinoids will start
to actually crystallize and they'll form
one little crystal and it will grow upon
itself as we reduce the saturation of
the solvent they actually fall out of
solution so what will happen is you'll
almost see like rock candy or crystal
like formation growing once those
crystals are fully formed they can be
harvested and once you optimize this
process you actually have nearly 100%
purity on any given compound now there
can be adulterants you know that gets
stuck on the crystals that need to be
washed off but in ideal state this is
something that you can refine up to say
a good benchmark is 99 to 99.5 percent
if you're a really good chemist you can
get it up close to ninety nine point
seven ninety-nine point nine this is
where that last little bits very very
hard to get but there is ways to do that
so if we look at you know the the world
of cannabinoids and conclusion there's
several different ways to make extracts
there's a lot of different ways to make
very very viable market products there's
a lot of ways to drive revenue in your
extraction business with these products
understanding this knowledge base and
understanding how you're going to occupy
each one of these market niches what
access to biomass you have what
diversity and methodology do you have in
order to create these products and
ultimately drive diversity and revenue
in your in your business and then really
taking that to the next step and taking
the next level of understanding of how
to create these products that's
something that we do here all day long
at precision we absolutely understand
all these processes very intimately we
have a excuse me we have a very robust
team of install / integrators that
optimize these processes so again not
just selling you the pieces of equipment
but actually coming out training you on
these processes sitting there with the
pieces of equipment with you in order to
get these processes integrated until
your business is up and running and on
legs
so in conclusion a tremendous
opportunity I hope you enjoyed the video
of thanks for joining us we really look
forward to seeing you again