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This week, David Sandelman, founder and CTO of Cannatrol, joins the Cannabis Equipment News podcast to discuss how his groundbreaking dry, cure and store technology is preserving trichomes and delivering higher terpene levels.
David Sandelman worked in the cheese business; he designed technology that changed the way manufacturers aged cheese. After he conquered the dried meat industry, he wondered if he could use the same physics he employed to dry cheese and meat to dry cannabis flower. After all, the goal of each product is to make it shelf stable so it doesn't go rancid.
Sandelman focused on the unit of measure for water activity, which represents the amount of unbound water. Microbes feed on unbound water so, once you remove the unbound water, mold and microbes can't grow.
He built a proof of concept: a small countertop unit that was essentially a small refrigerator with his tech built into it. Sandelman gave it to a grower to test and, a couple of weeks later he stopped by to see how the test was going. The cultivator said it was some of the finest flower he'd ever produced—and wouldn't even give the prototype back.
Sandelman built a few more prototypes and gave them to craft growers, and he says the results were unbelievable. Cannatrol now ships worldwide. The technology is in 14 different countries with close to 10,000 installations.
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