Description
Before Boveda, it was difficult, if not impossible to control humidity for moisture-sensitive products, like cigars, cannabis and wooden instruments.
SO BOVEDA INVENTED THAT CONTROL
Starts with a frustrated cigar lover who also happened to be a humidor maker. Keeping his cigars properly humidified was a tough job. That job was labour-intensive. That labour didn’t always work. It was the ’90s and he was limited to distilled water and sponges or distilled water and shot glasses or foam and chemicals. (Some people still use those one-way humidifying methods. We don’t know why. But that’s another story.)
So he called a guy to solve the problem. That guy was Dr. Albert Saari, a retired General Mills chemist. Saari found the answer in salt. Turns out salts keep a fixed relative humidity (RH) level. Supersaturate those salts with pure water and they humidify the surrounding air.
So Saari called a guy he knew, Robert Esse, a General Mills packaging specialist. Waterproof packages, no problem. Packages to let moisture pass in and out, never been done. So Esse found a material that had a high water-vapour transmission rate but stopped salt. Bingo! Let’s patent the packaging. (And patent it many times over around the world.)
So the humidor maker then called Sean Knutsen and Timothy Swail, two friends with business and marketing backgrounds to form an entirely new company to bring this simple, yet remarkable invention to market. And in 1997, Boveda (then Humidipak) was born.
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