ENWAVE SIGNS ROYALTY-BEARING LICENSE WITH LEADING ILLINOIS-BASED CANNABIS COMPANY AND RECEIVES ORDER FOR 120KW REV(TM) MACHINE
GlobeNewswire MAR 09, 2021 09:00 AM EST
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EnWave Corporation (TSX-V:ENW | FSE:E4U) (“EnWave”, or the “Company”) announced today that it has signed a royalty-bearing commercial license (the “License”) with a leading Illinois-based cannabis company (the “Licensee”) to use the Company’s proprietary Radiant Energy Vacuum (“REV™”) dehydration technology to process cannabis products. The License grants the Licensee the right to use EnWave’s patented REV™ technology for the production of cannabis products in Illinois. The Licensee has also entered into an equipment purchase agreement to purchase a continuous 120kW REV™ machine for large-scale commercial production and a 10kW REV™ unit for process refinement and smaller commercial runs.
EnWave’s REV™ technology offers a fast, gentle drying method that precisely removes moisture homogenously from cannabis plant material at controllable, low temperatures below the point of decarboxylation. When compared to incumbent drying methods, REV™ has increased process control, meaning processing protocols can be customized to maximize terpene retention (proven to retain greater than 10% total terpenes when compared to rack-dried cannabis), preserve equivalent or higher cannabinoids when compared to room or rack drying methods and reduce bioburden. Drying times are less than two hours and REV™ machinery is manufactured for GACP compliance and GMP upon request.
A single 120kW REV™ machine can process up to 105kg of wet cannabis biomass per hour, yielding approximately 23kg of dried output. That equates to 92,000kg of dried finished product produced per annum running 16-hour days, 5 days per week, 50 weeks per year.
REV™ technology has been proven at scale in the food and cannabis industries. EnWave has 42 licensed partners and more than 50 royalty-bearing REV™ machines in operation globally.
