Our VS 1000 and 5000 units require biomass that is dried to 15% or less moisture content, and ground to 3-3.5mm particle size.

Vapor-Static extraction is named because the process uses a combination of heat to vaporize cannabinoids, water which is used to create a non-coalescing fog with electrostatic precipitation to collect the cannabinoid-rich vapor into a high purity oil.

Electrostatic precipitation is a process that is used in the clean air industry for industrial processes. It's the reason smoke does not come out of smoke stacks at power plants and we’ve adapted it to create an entirely new, 100% solventless form of biomass processing. A simple explanation is that a high-voltage field pushes lightly charged particles against the walls of the precipitator where non-coalescing fog is able to be collected as a cannabinoid rich oil.

The oil that Vapor-Static makes is considered a refined solventless crude. It contains little to no sugars, low wax content, and is highly potent, making it the perfect distillate-ready oil that requires no post processing in most cases to be distilled.

One of the best parts of Vapor-Static extraction is that it is indeed completely solventless - no alcohol, no ethanol, no CO2, no hydrocarbons (or anything else), period. It does use water to create the non-coalescing fog required to collect the vaporized cannabinoids, but it acts as a carrier as opposed to a solvent. This results in dramatically lower OpEx costs compared to traditional biomass processing technologies.

No, unlike high pressure solvent-based processing technologies, Vapor-Static does not require pressurized vessels or flammable chemicals. You do not need a C1D1 or C1D2 room to run your Boulder Creek Technologies system, which are extremely safe to operate.

While it depends on how long you operate the equipment for, in a 24-hour continuous shift the VS 1000 will need around 100 gallons of water replaced and the VS 5000 will need about 300 gallons.

That depends, if you are looking to winterize so that you can run it through distillation, then no, but if you want perfect optical clarity that the market is use used to then you can do a post distillation winterization with a fraction of the solvents and energy that you are used to if you currently use ethanol.

Boulder Creek Technology’s systems come with a CIP (clean-in-place module) and there are only a total of 5 motors, all of which are commercially available. Both the VS 1000 and 5000 need semi-regular servicing, and a detailed servicing schedule is provided with your purchase.

Yes we do, through Integrity Medical Capital. They come from the medical device industry and have had great success with the cannabis industry, but financing is highly dependent on credit, available capital, previous business experience, assets, and other factors. Please contact us for more information.

Technically equipment itself doesn’t receive a EU GMP certification, but since our Vapor-Static systems have a CIP module, 316 stainless steel, and a detailed controls log it should meet even the most strict URS to be accepted into an EU GMP certified facility.

No it does not, but terpenes can be stripped from biomass prior to being extracted. Distilling oil is made much easier when terpenes are removed from the starting crude, so Vapor-Static oil is very easy to process into distillate or isolate.

Yes it does, biomass enters a heated air stream which decarboxylates the material and resulting oil.

Yes you can, because the biomass exiting the system is not contaminated with harmful solvents like with other systems. It can be safely recycled or composted without posing any environmental impacts.