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J ANU AR Y NEWS Product News Winery & Grower Product News: Send us your latest offerings and announcements by emailing suppliernews@ winesandvines.com. Items may be edited for clarity and brevity. Moyno 1000 Close-Coupled pumps offer compact size The Moyno 1000 Close-Coupled pump features a two-piece drive shaft that allows easy assembly, maintenance and mechanical seal access. It provides versatility and performance advantages. Details: moyno.com Janson Capsules expands production in Europe Janson Capsules finished moving to a new European plant in late 2011. This new 80,000-square-foot facility houses both the Sofacap and Capsule Française businesses as well as a screwcap production line. Details: jansoncapsules.com Guala Closures purchases Polish DGS Guala Closures just completed its purchase of a 70% stake in Pol- ish aluminum closures manufacturer DGS from the Polish Enter- prise Fund VI LP. This is the fourth acquisition for Guala Closures in the past 16 months. Details: gualaclosures.com Wine Couture brings art and wine communities together Wine Couture is a new web-based platform where users can sub- mit designs for wine labels, vote on label designs and purchase wine. Details: winecouture.com ETS Laboratories opens Woodinville drop-box location ETS Laboratories opened a new drop-box location in Woodin- ville, Wash. For samples received by 2 p.m. Monday-Friday, re- sults of many routine analyses are available the next working day. Details: etslabs.com S'well bottle is swell for chilling whites The S'well bottle from Can't Live With- out It Inc. keeps wine cold for 24 hours and is perfect for barbecues, beach par- ties and other outdoor outings. Details: swellbottle.com World's largest membrane degasser Membrana-Charlotte introduces the new 14 x 40 Liqui-Cel Membrane 32 Wines & Vines JAnUARY 2012 S'well bottle Metrohm Ti-Touch Contactor. Additional capacity allows degassing systems to be built using fewer contactors and connections, resulting in a smaller footprint with lower capital expense. Details: membrana.com SpectroVision Touch provides sharp optical detection The SpectroVision Touch from filtec, a tech- nologically advanced vi- sion-inspection system for quality control in industrial applications, boasts inspection accu- racy at speeds greater than 1,800 containers per minute. Details: filtec.com Hand-held, affordable SpectroVision Touch heat-index meters The HT-30 from Extech Instruments is a hand-held, affordable and accurate heat-index meter that measures and combines all contrib- uting heat issues into a single value and instantly gives a reading. Details: extech.com TTB approves Claristar Mannoproteins for use in the winery cellar Claristar can now be used for the purpose of stabilizing wine from the precipitation of potassium bitartrate crystals, without submit- ting approval requests to the TTB. Details: gusmer.com Two new titrators from Metrohm USA Metrohm USA released the Ti-Touch and Wine Titrino Plus titrators. The former offers a built-in Ethernet port; the latter features a simple push-but- ton user interface. Details: metrohm- usa.com Portable stretch wrapping for the small winery GaleWrap, Douglasville, Ga., has developed a small, semi-auto- matic line of stretch wrap- pers, which include the only portable system available on the market today. Con- trol panel available in Eng- lish and Spanish. Details: galewrap.com Tudertechnica improves wine hose Tudertechnica, a major Italian specialty industrial hose man- ufacturer, introduced Glidetech Vineyard HD, which offers improved working pressure and burst pressure. Details: tud- ertechnica.com —Stephanie Papadakis