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When a product offers consumers convenience, value, variety, and accessibility, it’s likely to become increasingly popular. In the modern era of cannabis, these products are disposable vapes. The vaporizing category is quickly evolving, with nearly every 510 cartridge brand, offering or exploring the possibility of offering a disposable vaporizer SKU. 

So, just why are single-use vape pens taking over the market and how can your brand pivot to meet demand? Keep reading to learn all the latest on disposable THC vapes, including the most recent sale statistics, the factors driving consumers to buy, tech advancements, and more.

Current Popularity Of Disposable Vapes

In legalized markets, it’s hard to go into public without seeing someone using their disposable vape. With most Americans living in a state with legal weed – and at least one dispensary in their counties – cannabis use continues to rise. As does the popularity of disposable vapes.  

From the most recent sale statistics, BDSA shows 32% of vape consumers reported using disposable vapes in the last six months, a 25% increase from spring 2020. Beyond that, 17% of the vape consumer group stated that they prefer disposable vapes, a 9% increase from spring 2020.

So, what’s driving the popularity and sales of disposable vapes? Let’s get into the minds of consumers, and review the reasons behind their purchases.

Why Are Disposable Vaporizers Popular?

If you’re not a regular vape consumer yourself, you might wonder – why are disposable vaporizers so popular? Luckily, the same recent research on vape consumers also explored the reasoning behind their purchases. The responses for the top factors were as follows – 

• Ease of use – 57%
• Portability/convenience – 41%
• Discreetness – 36%
• Taste/flavor options” – 28%

To understand each desire more in-depth, we’ll break them down next.

Convenience

Disposable vaporizers are an all-in-one device. With just a push of a button or a draw of the breath, consumers are just a moment away from the puffs they crave. Even more, disposable vaporizers are often compact, making them easier to carry and transport compared to 510 thread cartridges connected to a battery. 

Another convenient factor of single-use vape pens is that they require little to no maintenance. Some consumers may be done with the product before the device even needs charging. If not, charging is typically done with universal chargers, making it that much more convenient. Lastly, unlike vape batteries, disposable vaporizers won’t need periodic cleaning to ensure a good connection between the device and the cart.

Variety & Choice

Single-use vape pens also offer consumers variety and choice. Not just in strains, effects, or flavors, but extract types, too. Today, disposable vapes are compatible with a variety of extracts, such as distillate, live resin, and live rosin. This offers consumers a wide variety of quality, potencies, and prices. 

In addition to shopping for a variety of extract types, consumers can also choose from indica, sativa, or hybrid varieties, flavored or specialty terpene-infused varieties, and strain-specific varieties. These types of options offer consumers a wide variety of flavors and effects to choose from.

Accessibility

Disposable vapes are accessible in two different ways. For one, they’re widely produced, meaning you can find them across the US at adult-use or medical-use retail storefronts, or online, too. Secondly, their low odor and convenience make them highly accessible for consumers to use on the go. Since disposable THC vapes are compact and discrete, they’re easy for consumers to access and take a quick puff when they need it.

Disposable Vaporizer Tech Advancements

Like any product, over the years, disposable vapes have undergone technological advancements. For consumers, that means some single-use vape pens have improved their heating elements, temperature controls, or other mechanics for improved experiences. Now, many disposable vaporizers feature automatic draws, offer longer battery life, universal charging capabilities, etc. 

For operators, how disposable vaporizers are filled has advanced greatly since their emergence on the scene. That includes the implementation of fully automatic (or semi-automatic) vape cartridges and disposable vape filling machines. These advanced machines, like the Vape-Jet, take the manual labor out of filing individual carts, highly optimizing their operations. 

These advancements allow operators to – 

1. Save time without a loading jig – Vape-Jet’s machine vision alignment system can automatically fill carts as shipped in vertically packaged foam trays. Simply unbox the cartridges, place the foam tray into the Vape-Jet, and start filling.
2. Fill precisely – Operators can reduce product loss and protect customer satisfaction, by preventing overfilling, and underfilling with Vape-Jet’s pharmaceutical pump and software-based guided calibration procedures. 
3. Preserve product – As you may or may not know, cannabis plant compounds are delicate and can be volatile. Technological advancements like the 3 individual heat zones and a nitrogen-pressurized fluid path found in Vape-Jet can help preserve the precious parts of the extract, consumers desire and demand. 
4. Adapt to product types – Remember when we mentioned how many varying types of extract products are found in disposable vapes? Advancing equipment like Vape-Jet, allows operations to adapt to these ever-evolving extracts with built-in configuration profiles and flexible automation. 
5. Automatically and quickly clean – The Vape-Jet’s advanced cleaning wizard will get the machine clean, and dry for a new batch with a few clicks. The full cleanup process takes less than 10 minutes and is almost entirely automated.

Altogether, disposable vape-filling machines like Vape-Jet provide the industry with an advancement for efficient manufacturing while helping to provide a quality experience for the consumer.

Who Uses Single-Use Vape Pens?

To answer the question, “Who uses single-use vape pens?” number-wise, an exponentially growing group. A recent analysis of 17 national studies showed that past-month use of cannabis vaping increased 5-fold from 1.6% in 2013–2016 to 8.4% in 2019–2020. 

When it comes to which consumer audiences use single-use vape pens, a clear trend is becoming evident. According to recent data from Headset, the younger cannabis community prefers disposable vaporizers to those of other ages. The data reports that Gen Z and Millennials make up 62.8% of all US cannabis sales and 70.8% of all vape pen sales.

Disposable vaporizers are also popular among beginner consumers. This is due to their straightforward design, simplicity of use, and the fact that they require no additional equipment to operate. 

On the flip side, because disposable vapes cause high amounts of waste, consumers who don’t prioritize sustainability are big users of the products. More sustainable-conscious consumers will opt for a pod system to reduce their overall amount of waste.

Final Thoughts On Why Disposable Vapes Are Taking Over The Market

With advancements across all industries, it’s easy to see – consumers desire technologically advanced, convenient, and accessible products. Hence the popularity of disposable THC vapes. However, when it comes to their disposable vape products – they also desire a quality and flavor-forward experience. 

To succeed in the highly competitive market of cannabis, brands should take their vape-filling game seriously. Especially considering the type of equipment they use, or the quality of it, can affect their vape’s end-result in flavor and potency. 

Explore Vape-Jet’s fully automatic or semi-automatic disposable vape-filling machine or our entire collection of automated equipment for advanced extractors. Learn more about the Vape-Jet team or dive even deeper into disposable vaporizer education with more blogs now.

For any manufacturer, efficiency and efficacy are the names of the game. To master these and produce a quality product to edge out your competitors, you’ve got to be on top of your game. Or in the cannabis concentrates industry, you’ve got to level up your filling game to continue to play – and win. 

Simply put, the machine you choose can make or break your productivity. So, how can you sift through the market’s current options today and make the right decisions for your business?  

This guide is a good start. Here we’ll dive deeper into the factors you should consider for selecting a semi-automatic dab jar filling machine. So, strap in and hold on tight – let’s get into all the basics you need to know for choosing your next best cannabis extract dispensing machine.

Key Considerations When Automating With a Dab Dispenser

With any big investment, there will be a set of factors to consider. For the Dab Dispenser, here are the crucial considerations to review for your operation:

1. Quality Control & Compliance 

Reduce steps in your operation’s process and ensure compliance with Vape Jet’s Dab Dispenser. The Dab Dispenser has an integrated scale that does a weight check for every jar during the filling process, saving you the manual labor required to weight-check products when using competitor models. 

2. Accuracy 

Ask yourself; do you have room for error when it comes to profits? One of the factors you should explore most in-depth when searching for a semi-automatic jar-filling machine is accuracy. For instance, the Vape-Jet Dab Dispenser  is the only machine with NTEP-certified, digitally recorded, and verifiable weight and accuracy data for each jar. 

3. Temperature

Thanks to the machine’s nitrogen-pressurized fluid path, many concentrates require zero heat application and can fill at room temperature, or with gentle heat applied to the reservoir and pump body.

If needed, the versatility of the Dab Dispenser comes through with two independent, digitally-controlled heat zones for the reservoir and pump body.

4. Materials 

Don’t let your dab dispenser hold you back when it comes to the type of extracts it can handle. The Vape-Jet Dab Dispenser seamlessly dispenses badder, butter, sauce, jam/jelly, and most extracts with crystals under 3mm swimming in terpenes.

How Vape-Jet’s Dab Dispenser Works

Why tell you when a video is worth 1,000 words – or, approximately 16 seconds of your time? To quickly illustrate just how simple the Vape-Jet semi-automatic dab jar filling machine is to use, here are the basic steps to operate it – 

1. Load reservoir
2. Pressurize with nitrogen
3. Select profile
4. Prime pump
5. Start filling

Of course, there’s nothing simple about what makes the Vape-Jet Dab Dispenser so elite. So, next, let’s cover why the leading extract companies choose Vape-Jet by covering its advantages, features, and reviews.

Why You Should Use the Dab Dispenser

Who doesn’t love dabs with benefits? The Vape-Jet Dab Dispenser is the most advanced of its kind. To get more specific, here are Vape-Jet’s most talked about advantages and features that fuel the productivity of extractors across the US.

Advantages

Beyond its features that will optimize your operations as a whole (we’ll get into those next), the Dab Dispenser is backed by industry-leading support and service. The machine comes with a one-year warranty and SLA that includes access to a team of dedicated product support technicians. This helps operators minimize downtime with quick response times, live video support, and overnighted parts.

Even better? Your employees will be happier, too. Any time you replace a manual process with automation, you not only increase efficiency but also improve the experience for those working by freeing up your team to focus and excel at the difficult and interesting tasks that need a human touch.. As found by our Pilot Program, the Dab Dispenser pilots have been cranking out jars and having a great time doing it.

“The Dab Dispenser helps reduce the amount of burnout that the packagers feel from sitting there and repetitively gramming by hand,” Joy Kintz from Sugar Tree Farms explains.

Features

The Vape-Jet Dab Dispenser comes equipped with a software-integrated scale and improves precision dispensing via its pharmaceutical pump. By integrating weighing during the dispensing process, operators save valuable time by removing a secondary workflow. 

As for speed, a toolless reservoir supports quicker changeovers and as a whole, the Dab Dispenser has minimal maintenance, avoiding any downtime. To be more technical, here’s a list of Vape-Jet’s most notable features – 

• An integrated NTEP Class II scale for maximizing yield and authorizing legal-for-trade dispensing.
• A nitrogen-pressurized fluid path that protects products from oxidation and degradation,  helping to maintain extract quality and consistency.
• Dynamic color-changing LEDs that help operators maintain optimal speed and consistent fills. 
• A touch-screen interface that customizes dispense parameters lets you review and track dispense reports and access remote support for seamless operation. 
• Auto-calibration helps ensure the pump consistency stays stable even as the material changes
• Ludicrous Mode allows you to turn the scale off, saving time per dispense cycle for the fastest possible throughput without weighing each jar.

The NitroKnife

The NitroKnife works flawlessly to separate the extract from the Dab Dispenser’s nozzle for touchless dispensing. 

It does so through a puff of nitrogen that offers high-precision and repeatable cutting, resulting in unrivaled dispense accuracy. Reducing touch points and operator variability boosts throughput, allowing your operation to make the process much more efficient by removing the need for manual scraping.

Reviews

But don’t just take it from our team of industry experts; we know who you really care to hear Vape-Jet praise from; our customers. Here are just a few words from some of the best. 

“The Dab Dispenser is not boring, like gramming by hand. It’s like I’m playing a video game. I don’t have to listen to podcasts or music to keep my day interesting.” -Dab Dispenser Pilot 

“We understood that starting small wasn’t an option in today’s competitive market. By investing in advanced equipment like the Vape-Jet, we could ensure consistent quality and meet consumer expectations.”  -Joy Kintz, General Manager – Sessions

“For the good majority of our strains, [the Dab Dispenser] is freakin’ perfect.” -Dario Flynn, Extractor Expert – Dab Factory

Take Control Of Your Filling Process Today

Say goodbye to hand gramming concentrates and take control of your filling process once and for all. It’s likely that your biggest competitors already have or will soon. 

So get the best for your best cannabis concentrates. 

Explore Vape-Jet’s Dab Dispenser more in-depth, or get in touch with our team to ask specific questions about your formulations. We’re always down to help. Our team is passionate about elevating the industry, one dab product at a time. 

Learn more about the automated gramming machine and cannabis cartridge and device filling machines you need to optimize operations with Vape-Jet. 

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The cannabis industry is one of the most competitive and difficult to navigate and scale efficiently. The plant itself is incredibly complex, as are its extracts, which are increasing in popularity among the market’s growing group of consumers. 

Today, one of the biggest challenges for extractors, vape cart and all-in-one device manufacturers is maintaining efficient operations. Many of these operations still use manual labor to fill the carts, one by one, with staff working robotically side-by-side.

This can lead to an increase in human error and issues that risk environmental contamination, etc. Hence the emergence and growth of cartridge filling machines for sale to produce high-quality cannabis products. 

Of course, not all cartridge filling machines for sale can be treated equally, and some can even cause more issues. This means selecting the right vape cartridge filling machine for sale for efficient operations to seamlessly scale is crucial.

Is your operation seeking to improve efficiency or your filling cart capabilities? This is the guide for you. Keep reading for tips on selecting the best cartridge filling machine for sale for your operation.

Best Cartridge Filling Machine For Sale

Why mess around with the rest, when we can get started with the best? In today’s industry, Vape-Jet offers the smartest cartridge filling machines for sale and other machines to improve efficiency and quality, including –

1. The Vape-Jet – a fully automatic vape cart filling machine. 
2. The Jet Fueler – a semi-automatic cartridge filler machine. 
3. The Dab Dispenser – a semi-automatic jar filling machine. 
4. Squish-o-Matic 1000 – a cartridge capping machine.
5. Drop Tank – a reservoir pre-heater.

Many in the industry agree that the Vape-Jet is the most advanced cartridge filling machines. So, next, let’s dive deeper into its unique capabilities to support efficient operations.

Vape-Jet Vape Cartridge and Device Filling Machine

The Vape-Jet is one of the most advanced fully automatic machines to fill vape cartridges and all-in-one devices. It fills between 5,000 and 10,000 units per shift with the lowest labor inputs of any machine on the market. 

Unlike other machines that fill carts based on predetermined x- and y-coordinates, Vape-Jet uses its advanced software platform and machine vision system to identify the ideal needle placement on 510 cartridges, all-in-one devices, and more.

The Jet Fueler, on the other hand, is an advanced semi-automatic machine that fills 510 cartridges and all-in-one devices. It fills between 5000 and 9000 units per shift and has an easy-to-clean design that won’t clog up like repeater syringes or error-prone check-valve systems.

Pros And Cons of Vape-Jet Cartridge Filling Machine

With any purchase or decision made, there are bound to be pros and cons. For Vape-Jet cartridge filling machines, here are advantages and potential drawbacks to consider –

Are you still unsure if a fully automatic cartridge filling machine is for you? Use this guide to compare varying types of machines, to consider the advantages and disadvantages for yourself.

Vape-Jet Customer Reviews

There’s nothing like word-of-mouth from your peers or real-world feedback to help you make a purchasing decision. Here are just a few things we’re hearing from our customers about how the Vape-Jet machine works and how our company supports their business: 

“One of the things I’ve been super impressed about is not only have you guys had our back with our facility, but you’ve gone above and beyond to communicate with AVD,” -Dario Flynn, Sessions

“All of our touch points with Vape-Jet as a company have been above and beyond what we’ve experienced with any equipment supplier in this industry.” -Alex Sukos, Meli Group 

“The Vape-Jet has been a huge asset in our lab, it’s almost like a team member.”- Larry Decristofaro, Proper

Don’t just take our customers’ word for it; call our crew directly, and we’ll be happy to discuss how Vape-Jet can support your specific operations.

Other Types Of Cartridge Filling Machines

Of course, when investing in equipment to fill cartridges and vape pens, it’s always best to do your research. To help, we’ve compiled a list alternative cartridge filling machines features to compare against Vape-Jet products.

Fully Automatic Filling Machines

In comparison to other automatic filling machines on the market, Vape-Jet offers more advanced technology at a better value. It also minimizes labor more effectively and increases throughput.

Other fully automatic filling machines limit your business potential with the restrictions of rigid automation. Filling machines designed to fill only a single type of hardware or style per loading jig can create delays (anywhere from days to months) when transitioning to something new.

Semi-Automatic Filling Machines

When compared to semi-automatic filling machines or cartridge filling guns made by other companies, it is clear how sophisticated the Jet Fueler is.  

The Jet Fueler is equipped with a fluid path made entirely from fluoropolymers, Viton, borosilicate glass, stainless steel, and ceramic that ensures your oil and products only touch the highest quality and safest materials available for the utmost quality.

Manual Filling Machines

Overall, manual filling machines are only viable in today’s industry as a cost-effective or temporary solution for startups and small-scale operations.

Need more help comparing other brands to Vape-Jet? We’ve got you covered with a complete breakdown of the most important differences to review.

Factors To Consider When Choosing A Cartridge Filling Machine For Sale

So, in the end, how can you answer the question, “Which Kind of Cart Filling Machine Should I Consider?” there are a few key factors that can help make that decision.

The Scale Of Your Operation

The first factor to consider is the scale of your operation. Does your facility produce enough extract to justify the need to fill more carts quickly? Will you need to expand your operations and scale over time? Also review the time it takes for employees to manually fill cartridges and compare the cost savings for labor, etc.

What Type Of Products You’re Filling

One of the biggest problems with automatic and manual cartridge filling is the consistency of the extracts and the vape product you’re filling. 

If the vape hardware you’re filling isn’t standard or if you plan to offer other products in the future, having a machine like Vape-Jet that can automatically identify where to fill and adjust accordingly is highly beneficial. 

As for live resin and live rosin, these extracts are thicker and much harder for most common machines to handle filling, which is a definite factor to consider.

Budget

Since you’re in the cannabis industry, you know better than most that sometimes it all comes down to the price of what you can buy within your budget. 

However, when filling carts more efficiently, investing in the right machine can help you increase profits and scale exponentially. While other filling machines may hold you back or create more costly issues, investing in your facility today can pay off for your company tomorrow.

Have more questions about selecting the right cartridge filler for your operation? Or on how our customer service and product support work? Before you buy, check out our complete FAQ section for the most common questions and answers.

Summing It Up: Why Buy From Vape-Jet

Now that you’ve learned more about cartridge filling machines for sale, you’re can make the best informed decision. 

So, if your operation is ready to take efficiency to the next level with the reliable support you need to succeed, there’s no better cartridge and device filling machine to choose than a Vape-Jet. 

Our crew is dedicated to providing industry-leading service and support for your vape cart filling operations while continually improving upon our technology to grow with you. Have questions? We’re here to help!

Get in touch, or call us directly, and stay tuned for more guides to increasing efficiency in the modern world of weed.

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