FAQ’s

Our 76,000 square feet extraction and processing campus is also our headquarters. We are located at 317 Lucy Garrett Road, Roxboro, North Carolina. 

Our food and pharmaceutical grade facility follows all current good manufacturing practices.

cGMP stands for Current Good Manufacturing Practices and is a standard set by the FDA to regulate manufacturing campuses to ensure that products reaching the market maintain a high level of integrity, safety, and quality. Currently, cGMP facilities are not required in the hemp extracts industry, but at Open Book Extracts we believe our clients deserve the best so we created a facility and follow practices and guidelines to ensure a premium production. 

We encourage our partners and clients to visit our extraction and processing campus to see first hand the measures we are taking to ensure the quality, safety, and efficacy of every product that moves through our facility. We also offer a virtual tour of our facility for prospective clients; please reach out to one of our sales reps to see the virtual tour.

Our hemp is grown on independent American farms by family farmers with generations of experience, planting 400+ acres of OBX-sourced genetics in North Carolina, Virgina, and Southern California.

All our hemp is organically grown. Our network of hand-selected farmers have pioneered hemp cultivation, production, and agrotech, with environmentally-friendly GAP-compliant growing methods. All of our hemp is sun-grown, with no pesticides, and no herbicides.

We send samples to third party labs to test for pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals, as well as THC, terpene profile, and CBD Potency. 

OBX uses well characterized varieties; including but not limited to Sweeten, Lifter, Suver Haze, Cherry Wine, Cherry Blossom, Abacus, Cherry Abacus, and Stormy Daniels. Our farmers grow from feminized seeds.

We have brought together a true team of A-players all under one roof. Our extraction team is composed of experts leading teams in pharmaceutical companies, medical cannabis, pHd research projects. Our formulation team brings decades of experience leading product development and innovation at some of the biggest consumer products manufacturing companies in the world. Our quality assurance teams bring experience from highly regulated research and industry environments. We also have data scientists, logistics experts, and a manufacturing management team who lead our tracking and work-in-process efforts that have years of experience in cGMP, pharma-grade, manufacturing facilities. Our team is second to none in this industry. 

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We use the cryo-ethanol extraction method. We selected the cryo-ethanol method for efficiency, safety, and purity. In addition, we recycle and reuse 95% of our ethanol, to support our sustainability efforts.

Winterization is the removal of lipids, fats, and waxes from the crude extract. These components can dilute the cannabinoid fraction, in turn, lowering the purity. Our cryo-ethanol extraction method ensures winterization during the extraction process and produces a premium quality crude extract end product.

Our crude is distilled through a continuous two-stage wiped-film distillation process. This method ensures the efficient and consistent separation of multiple components present in the crude extract: terpenes, chlorophyll, flavonoids, other lipids and plant by-products. The removal of these components results in an end product of a consistent, pure full spectrum CBD distillate.

Yes. Any distillation process removes terpenes. We are able to add naturally derived plant and cannabis terpenes back post distillation.

Typically in this specific distillation method/process you won’t lose any cannabinoids. The resulting distillate is actually more concentrated in CBD, and any of the other minor cannabinoids that were present in the crude extract. On the contrary though, a process such as crystallization to make isolate, you will lose the majority of your minor cannabinoids and THC, without losing any CBD.

We employ a chromatography process to remove the THC molecules and separate other minor cannabinoids preserving a broad spectrum of cannabinoids in our end product.

Whole Plant Crude Oil : 55-65%
Full Spectrum Distillate: 75-85%
THC Free Distillate: 85-95%
Isolate: 99%+
Water Soluble CBD Powder: Minimum 20% CBD
Water Soluble CBD Liquid: Minimum 5% CBD, 100% Soluble

We refer to our crude oil as Full Spectrum Whole Plant Oil. We call it whole plant oil because we use the entire hemp plant and maintain as much of the integrity of the plant in this ingredient as possible. It is 55-65% CBD and the other 35-45% of the oil is filled with terpenes, chlorophyll, sugars, flavonoids, and other minor cannabinoids like CBC and CBG.

Full Spectrum Distillate is a further refinement from our full spectrum whole plant oil. Through the distillation process we lose some flavonoids, chlorophyll, and some minor terpenes but are left with 75-85% CBD and the rest being other minor cannabinoids including THC. THC is most commonly known as the psychoactive cannabinoid found in marjuana however when formulating with full spectrum distillate final products are left with <0.03% THC (the legal limit) and it is rare to have psychoactive effects from this low amount. The combination of CBD and these other minor cannabinoids leads to synergistic effects and has a kind of entourage effect where the efficacy of the product is improved. 

Broad spectrum THC free distillate goes through a proprietary process to remove the THC. Our broad spectrum THC free distillate is similar to our full spectrum distillate except we have refined it further to remove all amounts of THC below a level detection in rigorous third party lab testing. While the THC in full spectrum distillate does not have psychoactive effects, some clients and consumers do not want trace amounts of THC in their final products. Broad spectrum THC free distillate has 85-95% CBD.

CBD isolate is the purest form of CBD with 99% CBD content. Everything is stripped from this ingredient found in the hemp plant except for the CBD so as to ensure the highest potency and purest form of CBD isolate.

Our water soluble CBD was developed alongside one of the largest ingredient suppliers in the world, Prinova USA. Our proprietary process to develop water soluble powder and liquid optimizews particle size to increase bioavailable. Our powder is a patent pending (CBDryTM) encapsulation process. Our water-soluble was developed applying the current prevailing research pertaining to the bioavailability and absorption of CBD in the human body. That particle size is stabilized using three different ingredient technologies in our aqueous system, assuring full functionality during the duration of the shelf life. Our water soluble product is second to none in the CBD industry.  

We offer numerous topical and ingestible SKUs. We are constantly adding new products, fragrances and flavor  to our white label suite. To see our most recent offerings, please visit our white label offerings page.

For cannabinoid ingredients, OBX white label formulations are available using both full spectrum distillate and THC free distillate. We offer a diverse range of flavors and scents that are seasonal and change as we continue to improve our formulations for each white label form factor. These offerings can be found on our white label offerings page.

We offer organic MCT oil in-house. We can provide custom carriers by customer request.

Yes, we offer both full spectrum and T-Free products so that our clients can choose which products are most appropriate for their customers.

Yes, we offer both full spectrum and T-Free products so that our clients can choose which products are correct for them.

We offer the opportunity for you to develop custom formulations for your brand and consumers. We have the capabilities to develop ingestibles and topicals with unique formulation and packaging that will strengthen your product portfolio and resonate with your target customer. 

Our product development and formulation team brings decades of experience developing both topical and ingestible products with some of the largest CPG companies in the world.

Yes. To request a sample, please reach out to kelly@openbookextracts with the product you’re interested in sampling.

You can purchase bulk ingredients directly on our website. For private & white label offerings, please reach out to [email protected].

We will send you our up-to-date price sheet upon request. Please reach out to [email protected].

Yes. Please reach out to our sales team at [email protected] with details on where you are located and how we can support your business.

We will match any price from a competitor that you bring to us. You get the best price and quality on the market. 

We are committed to providing you with top-quality products. Satisfaction with our products is guaranteed or we’ll give you your money back.

We test the hemp of every farmer mid season in the field and homogenize samples that we send to third party labs when we receive deliveries of each farm’s hemp at the end of the season. We also test the hemp in house before we begin processing to track quality and yields during extraction. 

We test our fields for 50 known pesticides.

We test every field to make sure there are no heavy metals and toxins from their water sources.

We test our product at every stage during processing to ensure quality and safety for every batch moving through each stage of our process. In addition, we test every finished good with a third party before it leaves our facility. 

Yes, we offer 3rd party tests for all finished products.

Yes, we test for pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals, myotoxins, and micro-organisms.

Through specific SOPs that ensure our processes are repeated the same way for each step of our extraction and purification process.

Each product has been through extensive stability testing and every product’s shelf life is unique. You can find out more about each product’s expiration by asking your sales rep ahead of ordering.