Hemp, Cannabis, Marijuana – What’s the Difference?

RevLocal/ February 7, 2018/ Latest News

Confused about the legal status of cannabis and cannabis-derived products? You’re not alone.  To understand the benefits and contradictory legal status of the incredible cannabis plant one has to wade through a myriad of misconstrued biology and science, inconsistent federal and state laws, morality- and prejudice-based public policies and Big Pharma lobbied federal criminal codes. With some form of cannabis

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Advanced Hemp Processing Promoted in South Carolina

RevLocal/ February 7, 2018/ Latest News

Growing and refining industrial hemp in South Carolina will benefit farmers, rural communities and many businesses according to a hemp industry veteran speaking at the Hemp Educational Conference in Marion, South Carolina on Saturday. Ed Lehrburger, founder of Colorado-based PureHemp Technology LLC touted the many benefits of reviving South Carolina’s hemp industry that was closed down in 1937 when the

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Biomass technology: Creating products out of former waste

RevLocal/ April 16, 2016/ In The News

By Greg Stiles When most Southern Oregonians think about biomass, they think of backyard clippings and wood waste destined for energy production in White City. Biomass technology, however, has made quantum leaps in recent years with a handful of production facilities around the world now breaking down cellulose into raw materials used in paper products, specialty chemicals, plastics and biofuels.

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PureHemp’s President, Ed Lehrburger to Incite the Hemp Revolution at NOCO Hemp Expo in Loveland, CO on April 2

RevLocal/ March 30, 2016/ Latest News

PureHemp’s President, Ed Lehrburger to Incite the Hemp Revolution at NOCO Hemp Expo in Loveland, CO on April 2. FORT LUPTON, Colo. – March 30, 2016 – PureHemp Technology LLC (“PureHemp”), a Colorado-based hemp refinery developer, announced today that its President, Ed Lehrburger would be speaking at the NoCo Hemp Expo at the Ranch Event Complex in Loveland Colorado on April 2,

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President and CEO Ed Lehrburger is reinventing the paper-making process for the 21st century

RevLocal/ May 18, 2015/ In The News

COMPANY WEEK – By Eric Peterson President and CEO Ed Lehrburger is reinventing the paper-making process for the 21st century — with no trees involved — at a former Colorado cannery that dates back to the late 1800s. Lehrburger and his brother and COO, Carl, founded the company with CTO Dr. Dick Wingerson to commercialize Wingerson’s “countercurrent extraction process.” Click

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First large-scale hemp processing plant begins in Colorado

RevLocal/ May 7, 2015/ In The News

ABC NEWS, DENVER – May 7, 2015 By Jaclyn Allen A Fort Lupton plant is starting to test and process Colorado’s hemp harvest, turning it into pulp that can be used to make paper, sugar — even biofuels. It’s nickname may be “ditch weed,” but the PureVision Technology processing plant in Ft. Lupton is turning Colorado’s newest cash crop into

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American hemp. Colorado biotech firm ramps up processing plans

RevLocal/ April 8, 2015/ In The News

By Elana Ashanti Jefferson, The Cannabist Staff Fort Lupton’s PureVision Technology wants to process hemp stalks for consumer-product manufacturing and plans large-scale biorefinery in Oregon. A Colorado biotech company plans to open a large-scale industrial hemp processing facility that will take the crop’s would-be waste — namely hemp stalks — and make it useful. Click here to read full article.

Colorado-based PureVision Selects Oregon for Biorefining Technology Scale Up

RevLocal/ April 2, 2015/ In The News

PureVision Technology Inc., a Colorado-based biorefinery developer, recently announced that it will scale up its biorefining technology at an industrial site in Boardman, Oregon, owned by ZeaChem Inc. The public announcement was made March 28 during a presentation by PureVision CEO Ed Lehrburger at the Oregon Hemp Conference at the Portland Expo Center. Click here to read full article. BIOMASS

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