Futurola is the Amsterdam rolling-paper and pre-roll equipment company that siblings Evert and Yvonne Brandenburg launched in February 1996. It started with thin papers and a king-size cone roller. Three decades later it sells cones by the case, industrial shredders and the Knockbox, a cone filler that turned pre-rolls into line work.
The store kept moving in 2026. Two Knockbox production bundles went up on August 7, 2026, and the company posted a run of pre-roll equipment guides in July, August and September 2026.
From the Future Coffee Shop to a paper brand
The Brandenburgs ran coffee shops and cafes in Amsterdam through the 1980s and 1990s. One of them, the Future Coffee Shop, opened near Central Station in 1984 and gave the brand its name. Importing and exporting smoking products for the shops led the siblings to make their own.
MJ Wholesale's 2020 history of the company traces the first products to thin French rolling papers made with arabic gum from acacia trees. A king-size cone roller followed and caught on in Amsterdam's smoking scene. The company says it has been Amsterdam's leading brand of rolling papers and smoking equipment since 1996.
Family-owned, with Amsterdam and Los Angeles bases
Futurola stayed in the family. MJ Wholesale's 2020 profile describes it as family-owned with two central locations, one in Amsterdam and one in Los Angeles, and Entrepreneur's company profile lists Los Angeles as headquarters. The U.S. operation trades as Futurola USA, the name on the store's terms of service.
The American business has worked the trade-show circuit for years. Marijuana Venture reported Futurola as a Gold Sponsor of the RAD Expo, held January 17–18, 2018, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Organizers billed it as the first national trade show built only for cannabis retail businesses.
Six years of testing behind the Knockbox
The Knockbox changed the company's weight class. Futurola says the Knockbox 100 arrived in April 2016 after six years of development testing. The pitch was simple math. One person hand-filling for four to six hours turns out about 100 rolls, while a Knockbox running the same hours produces up to 10,000.
Operators load cones, switch the machine on from the controller and pull a metal slat to drop material from the mix tray into the cones. The Knockbox 100 runs 60- or 90-second fill cycles set by a density button and fits 16 varieties of Futurola cones. In July 2022, mg Magazine put the Knockbox 3 in a roundup of pre-roll machines, citing up to 2,000 pre-rolls an hour.
Knockbox Original, Knockbox Pro and the Dutch Crown
The 2026 lineup splits into two families. Knockbox Original comes in 50 and 100 sizes. Knockbox Pro runs 100, 300 and 500, and the Pro 100 adds integrated density and start controls. Fill kits cover Standard, Slender, Fatboy and Party cones.
Around the base sit the parts that make it a line: cone loaders, mix trays, unload stations and a controller. The Dutch Crown Device handles the handoff to finishing. A July 13, 2026 company post describes it spreading material from a tray into the cones below for even settling, without air pockets or overpacked sections, before the cones move on to twisting or capping.
Pro and Classic shredders
Prep happens before the Knockbox. Futurola's shredders come in two tiers. The Classic range covers Mini, OG, Mega and Mega Plus. The Pro range covers Mini, OG and Mega, priced from $5,625 for the Mini to $11,250 for the Mega. Entrepreneur's profile dates the first Shredder to 2017, and screen barrels, mix bags and replacement whips keep the machines running.
Cones by the size code
Cones remain the volume business. Futurola lists them by length and tip width: 84/26 for 1 1/4, 98/26 for Slim, 109/21 and 109/26 for King, 120/30 for Fatboy and 140/26 for Party. Slender cones run 60/26 Mini plus 98/26 and 98/30 Reefer. Paper comes in Classic White or Dutch Brown.
Standard paper cones list at $774 a wholesale box on the Futurola store, and 109/26 blunt cones run $1,374. Wholesale reseller Smoke Cones pegs the 1 1/4 at about half a gram, the Slim at about 0.7 gram, the King at about 1 gram and the Party at about 2 grams. The flat side of the catalog still covers King and King Slim papers, tips, cone rollers and rolling trays.
Mike Tyson and Snoop Dogg on the label
Futurola's own timeline dates its Mike Tyson partnership to December 2019. The store now sells it as the TYSON 2.0 collection: a Knockbox 50 Knockout Edition, tobacco-free Knockout OG blunt cones and wraps, king-size papers with tips, red and black mat cone rollers and two sizes of rolling tray.
Snoop Dogg followed in February 2025. The Snoop Dogg x Futurola line covers the Double G cone roller at $29.99, Double G papers in King with tips and King Slim, and Gin & Juice blunt cones and wraps.
Bundles, guides and retail in 2026
On August 7, 2026, Futurola published two turnkey bundles. The Knockbox Original Bundle pairs a Pro Shredder Mini, a Knockbox 100 filling kit, a Dutch Crown Device and King 109/26 cones, listed at $13,836 retail with $1,000 in bundle savings. The Pro 100 Bundle swaps in the Knockbox Pro 100, a Pro-Series Dutch Crown and 109/21 cones at $16,649.
The company's August 20, 2026 post pitches the setup for a two-operator crew. It claims more than 20,000 pre-rolls a day on one line, up to 48,000 on two and more than 72,000 on three. September 17, 2026 brought four more posts on commercial pre-roll equipment.
The consumer side reaches past futurola.com. Amsterdam-founded head shop Grasscity sells Futurola King Size and King Size Slim papers, plus Tyson 2.0 x Futurola papers with tips. Hydrobuilder stocks the Knockbox 100, 300 and 500, shredders and bulk cones, and the Futurola store ships U.S. orders over $99 free, excluding Alaska and Hawaii.