Learn more about developing and improving equipment for safe extraction with Ben Stephens, Founder and CTO at Delta Separations. Delta Separations, founded in 2015 is a hardware manufacturer based out of Santa Rosa, California. They are dedicated to developing and improving equipment for safe extraction of high-quality oil from plant-based biomass, primarily for the cannabis and hemp industries.

Ben is an expert on machinery and technology, and he’s really gotten his hands dirty building and even inventing new extraction machines. We talk about that journey to build the perfect machine for extractions. Ben explains some of the differences between extraction methods as there’s a debate about certain ways of extraction being “better” or “cleaner” than others.

We also take a deep dive into Ben’s thoughts around some of the challenges he’s seeing our industry dealing with currently. We know the obvious ones like federal prohibition, banking access, insufferable tax rates, etc. People are eager to be in this industry but may not realize some of the hoops they need to jump through. We cover this and much more in this episode.