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HOW IMPORTANT IS SAFETY WHEN
YOU'RE ENGINEERING NEW PRODUCTS?
Safety is paramount, both for our production staff while they
are manufacturing our equipment, as well as the end users
who are trusting our machines in their harvest process.
We just went through this iteration of converting the
Alchemist to a personal protective equipment (PPE) cleaning
machine for hospitals, first-responders, or anywhere else
PPE is needed in this time of short supply. We’re working
with a number of contributors, including IGTCAN, on this
project and hoping to secure government contracts for the
technology. When it comes to government contracting, and
you start to go through the FDA certification process, you
really see what it means to look at safety and regulations in
a comprehensive and very serious way.
So, it’s really, really important. After all, you can’t make things
too safe, right? There's no such thing. Except for if that requires
a machine not to function. I think of a table saw. One of the
most brutal machines for fingers ever created is the table saw.
It’s a great machine, but you do need to be taught how to use
it. Well, there’s a company called Saw Stop that manufactures
table saws, and if you touch the blade, it instantly stops. You
could stick your finger into it, and I don’t recommend ever
doing that, but you can, and it will stop. It just literally throws a
piece of aluminum into the blade at light speed because it’s all
piezoelectric. Bam, like that, and it just locks the blade.
I’ve actually seen it work and I’ve seen it on a guy’s finger, and
he just nicked his finger. Point being, safety is a huge concern.
You don't want rough edges on your equipment. You don‘t want
sharp spots. You don’t want to create the opportunity for people
to get injured because if they can, they will. Even with all that
said, there’s a limit to what you can do. You do everything you
can and then hopefully training and common sense will prevail
and keep people safe while operating your equipment.
WHAT ARE SOME NEW INNOVATIONS
YOU'RE USING IN YOUR PRODUCTS?
This seems like a two-part answer. There are the innovations
we’re creating and releasing, then the innovations we’re
implementing in our manufacturing process. In terms of our
manufacturing process, one cool shift has been our move to
laser welding. Not 100 percent because there’s still a need
for TIG welding on the stainless steel in larger parts, but
we’ve moved over to mostly laser welding, which is radically
changing the welds and the speed with which we can weld.
It’s just unbelievable.
Additionally, we’ve moved
over to 100 percent 316
stainless steel (from 304).
Initially we thought we would
only implement it where the
machine touched the plant,
but we decided we wanted
to do better than that. So, we
got creative and worked out a
really good deal with the mill
who supplies the steel, and now we utilize it throughout the
machine, further enhancing our product quality.
Switching to all 316 stainless steel also prevents confusion or
mismatching in our production facility, so it won’t get mixed up
with 304. 316 is more corrosive resistant and higher quality. It’s
used in labs, kitchens, and other facilities like that.
In terms of our products, we’re constantly bringing innovation
to the industry. Our latest release is the PPE Remediator, which
will sterilize PPE equipment for hospitals, first-responders, and
even cultivation facilities that find themselves needing to reuse
protective equipment in these times of short supply.
The PPE Remediator implements technology we also plan
to bring to the cannabis remediation process, which is sorely
in need of a machine that works as advertised. We have
experience with other companies that have attempted to bring
this solution to market, and failed, so we’ve collaborated with
a handful of companies (each leading their own industry), to
figure out a solution that works. We’re excited to bring this
product to market later in 2020.
The Deserest drying machine will be another release in 2020,
which will bring a drying technology to the cannabis space
unlike anything that it has seen before. We’re incredibly
geeked out on this machine and it’s going to be another gamechanger
for GreenBroz.
WHAT ARE SOME STEPS GREENBROZ HAS TAKEN
TO IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY?
Well, that’s a great question, because I think from the beginning,
we have been a leader in that respect. Everything that we have
used in our products has been recyclable. We use high-density
polyethylene that’s untreated for that very reason. So that can go
into reuse easily; same with the aluminum and the stainless steel.
Even the electronic parts are mostly recyclable as well because
they can be broken down and reclaimed, but we’re over 96 percent
recyclable. And for a reason, we not only want to build the best
machines possible, but we want to do it the right way and be
stewards of our environment whenever we can make it happen.
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