Canada’s Greenlane subsidiary Pollen Gear has secured a patent from the US Patent Office for its child-resistant SnapTech Bags used by cannabis brands such as MedMen, Organigram, and Farma.
Image: The SnapTech Bags are used by cannabis brands such as MedMen, Organigram and Farma. Photo: Image by 7raysmarketing from Pixabay.
The SnapTech Bags feature patented Snap-Locking Mechanism designed to provide cannabis brands with ASTM child-resistant compliant solutions to meet the changing packaging requirements.
The new patent adds to Greenlane’s existing global portfolio of more than 100 patents and patent applications implemented across all Pollen Gear container technology.
Greenlane chairman and CEO Aaron LoCascio said: “The integration of Pollen Gear’s award-winning team of designers and engineers into our business has accelerated our product development and innovation, allowing Greenlane to bring our customers a higher quality of service and a wider array of packaging solutions.
“With this new patent for Pollen Gear’s SnapTech Bags, our customers can be assured that they are using packaging that has been tested at 100% child-resistant effectiveness, ensuring product safety and responsible consumption, while preserving the quality of their cannabis products and brands.
“We look forward to providing further updates on our packaging innovations as we bring more solutions to market and capitalize on this growth opportunity.”
Pollen Gear, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Greenlane, is engaged in the development of premium, customisable and patented child-resistant packaging solutions.
Before the acquisition in January 2019, Greenlane was the exclusive global distributor of Pollen Gear products for the legal cannabis markets.
With the acquisition, Greenlane has assumed operational control of supply chain logistics and quality assurance.
The move has allowed Pollen Gear’s team of designers and engineers to focus on product development and innovation, Greenlane earlier said.
Greenlane is a distributor of premium vaporisation products and consumption accessories in the US. It operates approximately 11,000 retail locations, and hundreds of licensed cannabis cultivators, processors, and dispensaries.
The firm offers a comprehensive selection of premium vaporisers and parts, cleaning products, grinders and storage containers, pipes, rolling papers and customised lines of premium specialty packaging. Its customers include more than 7,000 independent smoke shops and regional retail chain stores.