A side venture of mine is Hashtek, a company that manufactures sanitary commercial extraction equipment for solventless extraction (that is bubble hash and dry sift). This company was born out of my love for brewing beer and making hash!
My business partner Kelly has spent the last 30 years building breweries in Southern Ontario. I spent time working in the cannabis industry as the production manager of a solventless hash line. To say we became instant friends is putting it lightly. Hashtek was the byproduct of that friendship, and we now sell equipment all over North America.
The difference with Hashtek is everything is designed to meet the rigorous standards of the legal cannabis industry. Our equipment has passed various Health Canada inspections, and is 100% sanitary. Everything is built from solvent resistant 304-stainless which can be cleaned in place (CIP). All our electrical work is CSA certified.
Bridge Style Ice Hash Agitator
The Bridge Style Agitator (aka Whirlpool trichome separator) is the most cost effective ice water (bubble hash) agitator on the market. Gentle top down back-and-forth agitation separates trichomes from cannabis.

We can retrofit existing 65-gallon agitation vessels, or you can buy the bridge agitator complete with 65-gallon agitation tank and optional guarding (required in some states/provinces for compliance).

Full Commercial Hash Washing Setup
The Hashtek Full Commercial Hash Washing System is designed for top down agitation. Top down agitation allows you to maximize yields with ‘freeflow’ runs. This is opposed to ‘washing machine’ style agitators that hurt yields and quality by having biomass in zipped up washbags and an impeller at the bottom that shoots trichomes back up into the biomass slurry. Washing machines are fine for a basement lab but at-scale production demands quality equipment. Foaming is also minimized by low speed, high-torque agitation.
After an agitation cycle the pneumatic diaphragm pump moves water and trichomes to the 45-gallon filtration vessel. diaphragm pumps are exceptionally gentle- as an example they can pump cooked broccoli without damaging the structure of the plant. A second pump returns water to the agitation vessel or dumps it if fresh water is required. The use of diaphragm pumps allows you to run all tanks at the same height for easy monitoring and top-up.
Everything is controlled via a main control panel, including diaphragm pump, return pump, and agitation speed/on/off. As with all of our agitators the paddle cycles back and forth every couple of seconds to maximize extraction efficiency and mimic hand paddling.

Stainless Steel Cannabis Tumbler and Hoist
The Hashtek Cannabis Tumbler is a commercial grade tumbler designed for sanitary dry sift extraction. Dry sift typically ranges in potency from 30 – 60% THC. It is a solventless extraction technique that mechanically separates trichomes from plant matter using a rotating drum filter screen.
Dry sift is most often used to make traditional hash, which is a malleable combustion grade product. Traditional hash is often mixed with dried cannabis or tobacco when smoked.
An advantage of dry tumbling is that the biomass comes out dry, so it can be further re-processed in solvent based lines like CO2 or Ethanol (to make distillate or RSO style products). It is also much cheaper than ice water extraction because no water and ice is required.

Our cannabis tumbler is designed to work with our proprietary tumbler hoist. This facilitates dumping and re-filling cannabis into the large capacity drum.

Large Capacity (250+ Gallon) Ice Hash Extractors
For large scale operations we offer 250, 500 and 750 gallon extractors. These come with smart biomass removal, chilled/insulated tanks and automation options. These extractors can also be paired with automatic sieving machines for fully automating the extraction process. These systems are built to spec. Please contact us for a quote.
If you are ready to make your hash lab sanitary get in touch!