Plant Extraction Equipment

What's in the range

Solventless — bubble bags and dry sift. Cold-filter bubble-bag kits are built for 19L (5gal) buckets and sold as 3, 4, 5 and 8-bag sets. Screens run from 25 to 220 micron, colour-coded on the drawstring so you can tell them apart, and every kit includes a carry bag and a pressing screen. Hand-sift work uses smaller 8x14cm bags, sold in packs of 10: 25 micron for dry sift, 45 micron for bubble hash, 90 micron for herb. For the ice-water and dry-ice routes there is a 20L four-bag sift kit and a two-bag CO2 dry-ice kit.

Presses. The press range sits on Rosin Press Machines. It runs from a 550kg manual mini through 2.5t and 5t manual hydraulics, then 1t and 4t electric heat-plate models, up to the 25t Triminator TRP Stack for commercial runs. Heavy-duty T-handle pollen presses sit alongside for compressing kief, with 50-sheet rosin press paper.

Infusion and edibles. Decarboxylation and infusion share one stainless pitcher on the Wicked Butter Machine, which includes an immersion blender and preset 54°C, 71°C and 104°C cycles. The same job is covered by the Wild Butter Making Machine Kit and the odour-free POT by NOIDS all-in-one decarboxylator. For gummies: Wicked and Wild gummy machines, non-stick gummy trays, and Hi Moulds silicone moulds — a 2mL kit, an 8mL hexagon and a 100mL leaf.

Vacuum and lab. A Pyrex 2.2L or stainless 5.5L vacuum purge kit, with a basic 3CFM pump kit and hose, is the home-bench starting point. Anyone working at scale steps up to Across International: 2L rotary evaporators, 25L and 53L five-sided-heat vacuum ovens, recirculating chillers down to -30°C, dual-stage vacuum pumps from 0.9CFM to 9CFM, 2L short-path distillation kits, PID heating mantles, cold traps, and the tri-clamp glassware that joins the bench together.

Bench accessories. Dab mats in silicone come as a 30x20cm rectangle and a 20cm round. R600 n-butane is sold in a 6.5kg cylinder.

How to choose an extraction method

1. Solventless first, if you can. A bucket, ice and a set of screens will give you a usable result the first weekend. Ice-water bubble bags and a rosin press need no solvent, no recovery gear and no dedicated room.
2. Match the screen to the material. The work bag that holds plant matter is the coarse one (160–220 micron); collection happens in the 45–120 micron range. A three-bag set covers a first run. Eight bags let you separate grades and find where your material actually yields.
3. Be honest about volume. Personal harvests suit a 550kg mini press and a 19L bag set. Past a few hundred grams a week, plate size and tonnage matter more than price — that is where the 25t stacked-platen presses and the lab line earn their keep.
4. Plan the finishing step. Whatever you pull still has to be dried, purged or stored. The purge is a vacuum chamber and pump; larger batches get controlled heat from the vacuum ovens.
5. Check power and plugs. Electric presses and lab equipment here are 220–240V with AU plugs. Vacuum ovens at 53L and the larger chillers draw real current — check the circuit before the delivery arrives.

A bubble-bag run does not need the ventilation, recovery equipment and care that solvent work does. If you are starting out, start with water and pressure.

The equipment end of the harvest line is this page. Trimming machines, drying racks, curing storage and scales sit under Harvest & Extraction, and the drying and curing side has its own page at Drying & Curing.