Equipment

With major HB-44 and HB-133 updates in 2025, cannabis operators must integrate NTEP-certified EMFR checkweighers and leverage their data logs and event histories to prove compliance. Learn how to configure EMFR devices, design simple compliance dashboards, and pass inspections while balancing overfill risk, process capability, and operational efficiency.

Detailed, actionable guide for labs purchasing used or refurbished rotary evaporators, wiped film evaporators, chillers, and ultra-low temperature freezers. Learn how to verify fitness and compliance with a best-practice acceptance testing checklist inspired by UL 61010-1 and NFPA 30. Covers safety, leak rate, performance, energy, and alarm testing. Includes ROI insights and a product plug for Urth & Fyre’s wiped film evaporator listings.

A deep-dive guide for lab and production managers on how to read chiller pump curves for jacketed reactors—covering flow vs head calculations, system resistance, effects of viscous fluids, refrigerant choices like R452A, and implementing real-world, actionable monitoring loops for optimized process control and energy efficiency. Features a product plug for the PolyScience AD15R-40 Refrigerated Chiller, available via Urth & Fyre.

ISO 8655:2022 pipette calibration is a game-changer for cannabis HPLC potency programs seeking stable, defensible results. This detailed blog reveals how adopting these international standards—alongside AOAC CASP and NIST hemp reference materials—can cut sample prep variance in half, accelerating in-house testing ROI and establishing audit-ready workflows.

Learn how a robust ULT freezer startup SOP protects your biobank, R&D, or extraction lab from asset loss and compliance headaches. This guide walks you through practical, research-based best practices for receiving, resting, powering, and commissioning ultra-low temperature freezers and chillers. Includes a detailed checklist, alarm and power quality tips, ENERGY STAR v2.0 updates, and actionable strategies for avoiding the most common sources of early failure. Featuring the Ai RapidChill 26 CF ULT Freezer as a recommended platform.

This post unpacks how NTEP-certified EMFR checkweighers and intelligent buffer design solve modern cannabis packaging challenges. Learn about 2025 HB-44 updates, how EMFR weigh cell performance outpaces strain-gauge rivals in fast, small-fill lines, and how proper placement, control loop tuning, and MSA approaches can minimize overfill, chargebacks, and compliance risk while maximizing throughput and ROI.

Supply chain hiccups and high utilization make spare glassware, seals, and quick-swap kits key to minimizing rotary evaporator downtime. This comprehensive guide covers rotary evaporator maintenance checklists, which glassware and seals to keep on hand, payback analysis of spare kits, elastomer compatibility for solvents and terpenes, 5S lab organization strategies, and how to commission your system for optimum throughput. Featuring the Buchi Rotavapor R-220 Pro and Urth & Fyre’s consulting expertise.