About The Company

The mission of Eden Labs LLC is to provide the best equipment available for extracting botanical products. The company was founded on the "Coldfinger" extraction process which was developed by Eden Labs LLC President, Fritz Chess.  We have many designs to choose from, but our specialty is building custom equipment to your individual specs.

The name Coldfinger was derived from the modified coldfinger condenser which is the centerpiece of the design. The coldfinger process was developed as a way to dramatically improve the soxhlet distillation process which is used to extract solid materials in University and private laboratories throughout the world. Studies prove our method is superior to the soxhlet and we believe that the coldfinger will eventually replace the soxhlet as the industry standard.

Eden Labs LLC is also the only company to capitalize on the pioneering work of the USDA food sciences research facility in Peoria, Illinois. USDA scientists found that pressurized ethanol and/or water was often superior to other methods including supercritical co2 in extracting natural products. Eden Labs LLC is the only place to purchase high pressure solvent extractors that are based on this research. This method coupled with a vacuum distiller for concentrating the extracts is almost always the best method to produce the highest quality commercial extracts.

Most of the industry focus is moving towards supercritical co2 extraction. Eden Labs LLC has pioneered a supercritical fractionation technique in which extracts separate into specific constituents and precipitate into different vessels in a one step extraction process. We also have developed a method of adapting the coldfinger distillation process to distilling co2 under pressure to do extracts which is a radical departure from any other co2 work being done. Co2 distillation often yields extracts more pure than other methods which are far more complicated and expensive.

There are other compressed gases that have excellent extraction properties. Refrigerant gases, propane, butane, and dimethyl ether offer alternatives that are often the best solvent choice in certain circumstances. Eden Labs manufactures its' own compressed gas pump which is superior to all other pumps for the extraction of botanicals because it is very efficient and it is constructed to explosion proof and food grade standards.

Steam distillation is a centuries old extraction technique which is still widely used today particularly in the production of flavors and fragrances. The high temperatures needed to create steam often cause thermal degradation which compromises the quality of the oils as they are extracted. Eden Labs solved this problem by developing a vacuum steam distillation process which creates steam vapor at much lower temperatures. Temperature sensitive plant oils can now be steam distilled without being damaged.

Eden Labs LLC can also do the extractions for you. We can run small samples of as little as a 1/4 lb. of material to commercial runs of hundreds of kilos. Call or e-mail for a quotation.

We also offer more traditional systems such as presses, maceration tanks, and percolators. We have a full machine shop and scientific glassblowing lab. So if you have your own design in mind or you simply need parts for your existing facility, please let us give you a quote.

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