Manufacturing Capabilities
Innovation Driven by Science and Technology
WE ARE THE MANUFACTURER - OUR PURPOSE-BUILT FACILITY
Red Mesa’s 50,000 sq. foot facility was built to house the most advanced equipment for the distillation and isolation of hemp-derived cannabinoids. Our team of manufacturing and engineering professionals optimized the factory layout to increase workflow and to ensure expansion opportunities meet rising demand. As an ISO 9001:2015 processing site adhering to cGMP practices and 21 CFR Parts 111 (dietary supplements) and 117 (human food), professionalism exists at every level to ensure production of safe products in a meticulously clean and safe facility that meets or exceeds local, state and federal regulations.
Our “Red Mesa Standard” holds supply chain partners to the same operational processing standard as Red Mesa. From the onset of our crude handling process, a thorough 6-point quality verification is conducted to assess cannabinoid content, pesticide residues, heavy metals, fats and sugars. Once met, a mandatory in-person supplier evaluation of the supplier’s manufacturing facility is conducted, ensuring they align with our production ideals, quality benchmarks and possess quality components that will support our own production quality.
MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES
Homogenization/Solvent Recovery
To ensure uniformity, our crude handling pre-process involves homogenizing batches of up to 1000 kg in each vessel to ensure consistent processing. All incoming materials are subject to this process, including matching crude lots from suppliers to guarantee complete solvent recovery and stabilization before distillation. Post-homogenization, in-house HPLC testing will verify successful solvent recovery and homogenization.
Distillation
Our two-stage purification process utilizes customized distillation equipment connected in-series to minimize environmental exposure and contamination. Proprietary parameters and materials handling procedures limit cannabinoid loss to below 8%, maximizing cannabinoid retention and minimizing waste.
Crystallization
Crystallization (Reactor) – Bulk CBD, CBG, and CBN material containers requiring further crystallization processing are loaded into our heated 650L reactor using vacuum-driven, filtered hoses. Additional homogenization and further material cleaning is conducted to ensure consistent material during this initial stage.
Automated controls allow our staff to remain outside the room for 90% of the time while the system automatically manages solvent loading, temperature, pressure, time and the transfer of material between processes, to enhance product consistency and employee safety. Our programmable interface manages the cleaning process, targeting desired consistency, potency, purity, and color. To minimize contamination and eliminate traditional secondary vacuum oven processes, our fully enclosed in-process drying recaptures solvents for re-use before discharging materials directly into lined vessels for bulk storage prior to packaging.
In-line Crystallization Solvent Recovery: As the material is processed, the process solvent is recaptured in real-time, reducing material costs, environmental impact and team member interaction with each cycle. After each isolate batch is processed, bulk mother liquor is discharged directly into a receiving vessel, which will be sealed, weighed and await further processing
Chromatography
At Red Mesa, liquid chromatography, programmed using proprietary methodologies, transforms mother liquor (non-crystallized waste stream) into highly desired products, such as crystal resistant distillate and botanically derived minor cannabinoids (CBN, CBT and CBL) at Kg scale, void of any chemical catalyst conversion.
Chromatography Solvent Recovery
Our custom-built closed-loop solvent recovery system enables continuous and uniform processing 24 hours a day. Like others in our facility, this system is integral to material handling efficiency and safety. It minimizes manual intervention, requiring operator input only for solvent return by pump or material transfer into a receiving vessel under pressure. Each product from this process is subject to further purification without manual intervention, ensuring the highest achievable color, clarity and potency.
Conversions
Our primary output from our conversion reactors is CBN produced via a sulfurless method to minimize taste and odor. The resulting CBN oil follows the same rigorous process as our crude oils to achieve the same purification and verification steps.
ACCELERATING IMPROVEMENT
Operating with a commitment to continuously improve to achieve optimal quality, it follows that we place heavy emphasis on R&D, innovation and technological advancements. We want to share in our achievements and want you to be the first to know about new product launches and our breakthroughs in engineering and science.
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