Customer Spotlight
Purplebee’s
Pueblo, Colorado
“Without APEKS’s partnership from day one, we’d never be here.”
– Jim Parco, Owner of Purplebee’s and Mesa Organics
Who They Are
Purplebee’s is setting the bar higher with Apeks Supercritical systems.
Jim Parco, Ph.D., has been an Apeks customer for many years. He has five Apeks systems at his processing business, Purplebee’s (purplebees.com), in Pueblo, CO, with more systems on order! Jim and his wife Pam have a dispensary right next door, called Mesa Organics (mesaorganics.com) and the company has grown from just the two of them to 22 employees.
See It In Action
One of Colorado’s largest extraction facilities.
Mesa Organics and Purplebee’s are situated right next to one of the largest cannabis grows in the world, Los Suenos. Los Suenos Farms approached Mesa Organics to build a partnership to become a supply-chain for the largest brands in the cannabis industry producing high-volume THC oils, terpenes and distillate under the brand Purplebee’s.
about the owner
Jim’s history in a snapshot.
Jim Parco, Ph.D., is a professor of economics and business at Colorado College. As a retired military officer, he previously taught at the US Air Force Academy, served on the National Security Council at the White House and later, with the American Embassy in Tel Aviv.
Company History
Jim returned to his roots.
Jim grew up next to Greenwood’s Restaurant – a thriving diner from the 1940s to 1980. The small building sat on the corner of Baxter Road and Highway 50 East on the outskirts of Pueblo. After Colorado legalized retail cannabis in 2012, Jim and Pam decided to buy the building and turn it into a dispensary and manufacturing business.
Advice from Jim
Jim offers advice to others.
Work with the local community to gain acceptance. Cannabis is still a touchy subject for some folks but transparency and education go a long way to overcome the stigma.
The mural from the old diner.
Jim has affectionately named all of his Apeks systems. This one is El Jefe.
Los Suenos Farms, one of the largest cannabis grows in the world.
Filling a vape cartridge with CO2 extracted oil.
The Purplebee’s brand is synonymous with quality.
Jim discusses extraction at one of his five Apeks systems.
Expansion Plan
Purplebee’s is growing with Apeks.
Since 2016, Mesa Organics / Purplebee’s has continued to grow and scale into three retail dispensaries in southeast Colorado (to be fully operational by January 2020) and an 8,100 square foot processing facility in Pueblo County.
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Since 2001, Apeks Supercritical by GIBRALTAR has been designing, refining, and manufacturing botanical oil extraction systems utilizing subcritical and supercritical CO2.