Jul 1, 2021 | Bag Products, Main News, The Blog
We reluctantly increased our bag prices today by $0.02/bag ($20/1000 bags). I was just informed by our supplier that our resin price has risen to $1.70 per pound, leaving no alternative but to increase our prices. Lou ...
Apr 26, 2021 | Home Page News, Processes, The Blog
When sterilizing your substrate, longer and hotter is NOT better! A temperature of 121°C or 250°F will do the job. Just be sure the complete mass of substrate reaches that temperature for 30 minutes. The higher the temperature, the more the substrate will...
Mar 4, 2021 | Bag Products, Main News, The Blog
The price of the polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) resins we use in our bags has been rising rapidly lately. The recent winter storm in Texas shut down 80 to 85% of US PE and PP production leading to a loss of two billion pounds of production. This, is in...
Nov 24, 2020 | Main News, Other Products, The Blog
NEW! The new UNICORNBAG SCISSOR CLAMP hermetically seals the opening of a mushroom grow bag or a spawn bag and eliminates the need for a sealing machine and all its problems. These clamps are reusable with a no hassle simple design. This allows your bags...
Jun 27, 2019 | Environment, Main News, The Blog
A few years ago I sent some bags to Ecuador to support efforts to grow mushrooms and produce tinctures to help fight a cancer epidemic in the Amazon. I recently received this letter from Lexie Gropper of CoRenewal, formerly known as Amazon Mycorenewal Project. More...
Jun 27, 2019 | Environment, Main News, The Blog
About 15 years ago, we devised a method to receive used bags and transform them into usable polypropylene scrap. It involved a receiving station which would receive used bags from our customers and make recycled resin pellets from the bags. It failed because we could...
