Drew Rothe is the executive director of Xylem Robotics, an automation company that specializes in vape cart filling machines as well as pre-roll infusion machines. The company spent some five years designing and developing machines for its Type 7 facility in California for volatile solvent manufacturing. Originally, the machines were for internal use only, giving Xylem's white-labeling business an upper hand on competition. However, as the market evolved, the company saw an opportunity to sell the machines to other companies looking to decrease labor costs.
Xylem's X4 Vape Cart Filling Machine can produce 1,500 to 1,800 filled and capped carts per hour with a single operator, according to Rothe. He says the X4 doesn't use trays; workers simply dump carts and mouthpieces into the machine, and it produces filled carts.
Given the rise in rosin pens and carts, Rothe wanted to fill carts at a low temp, so the X4 was built to fill at temperatures as low as 45°C. Xylem's engineers also understood that lab space is a premium for most cannabis operators, so the machine was made small enough to fit through standard doorways, and it has casters to easily move it whenever it's shut down.
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