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ISM President & CSO to Speak at Montreal Cannabis Expo

[fa icon="calendar'] Sep 13, 2021 11:20:30 AM / by ISM Team posted in General Announcements, Medical Cannabis

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We are excited to announce that on September 14th - 15th,  Industrial Sonomechanics (ISM) will participate in Quebec's premier cannabis industry event: Montreal Cannabis Expo 2021.

At this event, ISM President and Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Alexey Peshkovsky, will speak about cannabis extract nanoemulsions (a.k.a. water-soluble THC and CBD). If you are interested in manufacturing liquid or powdered water-soluble cannabis extracts, please come to Dr. Peshkovsky's talk entitled "Water-Soluble" CBD/THC Liquids & Powders: Cannabis Extract Nanoemulsions Produced by High-Intensity Ultrasound."

 

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ISM President & CSO to Speak at NECANN 2021 in Boston, MA

[fa icon="calendar'] Sep 8, 2021 12:17:52 PM / by ISM Team posted in General Announcements, Medical Cannabis

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We are happy to announce that Industrial Sonomechanics (ISM) will participate in NECANN 2021, where ISM President and Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Alexey Peshkovsky, will speak about the benefits, formulations, production methods, and analysis of liquid and powdered cannabis extract nanoemulsions. If you are interested in making your own water-soluble cannabis extracts, please come to Dr. Peshkovsky's talk entitled "Water-Soluble" CBD/THC Liquids & Powders: Cannabis Extract Nanoemulsions Produced by High-Intensity Ultrasound."

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ISM Will Be Participating in the 2021 CBD Expo Southeast in Orlando, FL

[fa icon="calendar'] Aug 3, 2021 11:26:02 AM / by ISM Team posted in General Announcements, Medical Cannabis

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We are happy to announce that Industrial Sonomechanics (ISM) will participate in two scientific panel discussions at the 2021 CBD Expo Southeast & Delta 8 Conference this August in Orlando, Florida. ISM's President and Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Alexey Peshkovsky, will talk about cannabis extract nanoemulsion benefits, production methodologies, characteristics, and administration methods. If you are interested in learning about producing liquid or powdered water-soluble CBD, Delta 9 & Delta 8 THC, terpene and other lipophilic bio-active ingredient-containing nanoemulsions, please join us on August 27th & 28th, 2021 in Orlando, FL.

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Webinar Recording & Q&As: Water-Compatible Nanoemulsions: The Battle of Formulations

[fa icon="calendar'] Jul 28, 2021 1:15:19 PM / by ISM Team posted in Emulsion-based Products, General Announcements, Ultrasonic Processing Systems, Medical Cannabis, Food & Beverage

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In March of this year, Industrial Sonomechanics (ISM) hosted a webinar, entitled "Water-Compatible Nanoemulsions: The Battle of Formulations", presented by ISM's President and Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Alexey Peshkovsky. The video recording of this event has been posted on our YouTube channel.

The webinar generated over 100 questions, some of which were addressed by Alexey during the event. The answers to the remaining questions are provided below. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us or leave a comment below. 

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ISM Begins to Post Informative Weekly Q&A Videos on YouTube

[fa icon="calendar'] Jul 16, 2021 11:45:00 AM / by ISM Team posted in General Announcements

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Industrial Sonomechanics (ISM) is excited to announce the release of the first group of videos from its new "Q&A video series". In these videos, various members of our scientific, engineering, marketing and business development staff address the most common questions we receive and discuss ISM's solutions for a variety of industrial applications that can benefit from our scalable high-amplitude ultrasonic technology and formulations. We will continue posting these videos on our company's YouTube channel and website every week, so please check back often. 

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Live Webinar! Water-Compatible Nanoemulsions: The Battle of Formulations

[fa icon="calendar'] Feb 26, 2021 1:30:00 PM / by ISM Team posted in General Announcements, Medical Cannabis

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Industrial Sonomechanics (ISM) is pleased to invite you to a live webinar, which will be conducted via Zoom at 3:00 pm EST on Wednesday, March 24th, 2021. The webinar, entitled "Water-Compatible Nanoemulsions: The Battle of Formulations", will be presented by ISM's president and Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Alexey Peshkovsky.

If you are in the market to produce water-compatible nanoemulsions (water-soluble CBD and THC) you might be confused by the verbiage and terms in the marketplace such as: liquid or powdered nanoemulsions, microemulsions, liposomes, active ingredient concentrations, powder reconstitution, translucency, particle sizes, bioavailability, and onset of action. 

If you are trying to figure out the best solution for your company but don’t have all the tools to make informed comparisons and decisions relative to water-compatible nanoemulsions, then this webinar is for you.

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NanoStabilizer®-LSO Simplifies Making Water-Soluble CBD & THC Powders

[fa icon="calendar'] Feb 25, 2021 11:45:00 AM / by ISM Team posted in Emulsion-based Products, Medical Cannabis

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If you want to produce cannabis extract nanoemulsions in water-soluble powder form, look no further than Industrial Sonomechanics’ (ISM) new offering — the tasteless, all-natural and organic All-In-One NanoStabilizer®-LSO formulation. Building on the tremendous success of our All-In-One NanoStabilizer®-LT introduced in 2018, the ISM team is at it again as it pushes the envelope of innovation in the production of water-compatible nanoemulsions.
Over the past year, we have experienced significant interest from customers for a flexible, yet cost-effective method to make a finished nanoemulsion in powder form that reconstitutes back into a liquid nanoemulsion upon contact with water. The creation of NanoStabilizer®-LSO now makes it possible for companies to produce such water-soluble powders from their active ingredients (CBD, Delta 9 THC, Delta 8 THC, essential oils, vitamins, nutraceuticals, etc.), bringing their branding and application ideas to life.

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Webinar Video and Q&As: Analysis, Optimization & Production of Translucent Nanoemulsions

[fa icon="calendar'] Nov 10, 2020 11:45:00 AM / by Iva Gyurgina posted in Emulsion-based Products, General Announcements, Medical Cannabis

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The video recording of our recent webinar, "Analysis, Optimization and Production of Translucent Nanoemulsions", presented by Industrial Sonomechanics' R&D Scientist, Mr. Shlomo Leibtag, and Micromeritics' Global Technical Training and Support Manager, Mr. Jack G. Saad, is now ready. The webinar had over 200 registered participants and generated close to 100 questions. Some of these questions were addressed by Shlomo and Jack during the event. The answers to the rest are provided below. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us or leave a comment below. 

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Cannabis Research Publication in the Journal of Drug Delivery Science & Technology

[fa icon="calendar'] Sep 23, 2020 11:45:00 AM / by Iva Gyurgina posted in Emulsion-based Products, General Announcements, Medical Cannabis

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Industrial Sonomechanics® (ISM) is pleased to announce that our peer-reviewed research article, "Cannabis Extract Nanoemulsions Produced by High-intensity Ultrasound: Formulation Development and Scale-up", was recently published in the Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology and is now accessible online. The article compares natural and synthetic surfactant-based "water-soluble" CBD nanoemulsion formulations and describes methods used for their optimization and production with scalable Barbell Horn® Ultrasonic Technology (BHUT).

The paper describes two main types of cannabis extract nanoemulsions (natural and synthetic surfactant-based), focusing on formulation optimization procedures, production processes and droplet sizeanalysis techniques used to evaluate the results. ISM's LSP-600 processor configured in the batch-mode was used for the laboratory-scale optimization experiments, after which the process was transferred to the bench scale using our BSP-1200 processor operating in the flow-through mode. Over one million of nano-emulsified 10 mg CBD extract doses were shown to be possible to produce with one BSP-1200 unit per month. This number can be increased by the factor of five by further upgrading to our ISP-3000 processor configured in the flow-through mode.

While not referenced in the article, ISM has since introduced a product called NanoStabilizer®. This all-in-one, tasteless formulation is optimized for the production of translucent nanoemulsions with much smaller droplet sizes than could be achieved prior to its development. 

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Live Webinar: Analysis, Optimization & Production of Translucent Nanoemulsions

[fa icon="calendar'] Aug 24, 2020 10:30:00 AM / by Iva Gyurgina posted in Emulsion-based Products, General Announcements, Medical Cannabis

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Industrial Sonomechanics (ISM) is pleased to invite you to a live webinar, which will be conducted via Zoom at 3:00 pm EST on Thursday, September 10th, 2020. The webinar, entitled "Analysis, Optimization and Production of Translucent Nanoemulsions", will be presented by ISM's Research & Development Scientist, Mr. Shlomo Leibtag, and Micromeritics Instrument Corporation's Global Technical Training and Support Manager and Associate Scientist, Mr. Jack G. Saad. 

Webinar Overview  

Translucent oil-in-water nanoemulsions have become popular for the target site delivery of functional (e.g., biologically active) hydrophobic ingredients and are currently implemented by many industries, including pharmaceutical, cannabis, food & beverage, nutraceutical, chemical, alternative fuel and many more. Driven by their nanoscale (20 - 200 nm) droplet sizes, translucent oil-in-water nanoemulsions have several desirable properties: they are water-compatible, physically and chemically stable, and allow the incorporated hydrophobic ingredients to be delivered rapidly and completely.

But how does one measure nanoemulsion droplet sizes? And how can this information be utilized to optimize nanoemulsion formulations and production parameters?

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