Last month, we made the announcement that High Times was teaming up with the industrial hemp and CBD oil company HempAmericana. We told you that the company was expanding into the business of full-scale CBD extraction and was building a new facility in Augusta, Maine to accomplish just that. And now, we’re happy to share some exciting new developments about HempAmericana.
HempAmericana Is Closer Than Ever
We caught up with HempAmericana’s CEO Sal Rosillo for an update about his company. What he shared with us is nothing short of thrilling for both the company and everyone who uses CBD supplements.
He told us that the facility that they are building in Augusta, Maine is almost finished. And, he reiterated, the company was able to pay for the construction in full.
“There is no bank debt whatsoever,” he says with a tone of pride.
He also gave us an approximate timeline for when the extraction facility will be up and running:
“In one month’s time, we should be producing. We’re ready,” he says. “The machines are quite delicate. We have special technicians for them to eventually, after we do our own due diligence, to come in and finalize the tuning of the machines.”
“Once you turn them on,” he adds, “you don’t have to turn them off. The machines run 24/7. They’re almost fully automated, but someone has to supervise.”
The machines, according to Rosillo, are of such a superior quality that they can produce CBD oil with “no trace of THC.”
“We can take out the .003 acceptable percent of THC without altering anything else,” he explains. “Our products will be 100 percent pure because we have these machines to purify the product.”