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P A CKA GING (Continued from page 44.) For clients, Davis said, "Pricing depends upon quantity, but in most cases, there is an up-charge for this option. It does not take more time, but adds a new area that we have to watch/measure for quality control—the head-space pressure as well as torque pressure of the screwcap." A disadvantage of nitrogen sparging, he explained, comes with the necessity to employ low-pressure nitrogen dewars, the insulated containers used to store liquefied gases. An onboard nitrogen generator alleviates this burden. "We started with a nitrogen Liquid Nitrogen Injection Extreme precision allowing packages to receive the correct dose at all line speeds NITRODOSE® High efficiency vacuuminsulation to dramatically reduce liquid nitrogen consumption Hands free CIP protection for high pressure water or chemical clean up generator where ATMBL was able to eliminate the dewars for sparging the bottling. This in itself was a great big 'green.' When bottling, most wineries go through a dewar-plus every day, and the dewars leak about 5% every day." Since ATMBL began using the process three years ago, "We have done almost 1 million cases," Davis said. "That represents about 1,000 dewars, which is one large savings in itself. But more to the green factor: How many trips up and down the road have we saved on deliveries of the dewars from the big trucks and trailers that make that delivery? What is the carbon footprint we've saved? Huge." ATMBL is also keen on clean water. It added a water-filtration system to deal with "some pretty ugly water" with a pre-filter to remove particulates, two carbon blocks with different compositions to remove metals, sulfur smell, chlorine, magnesium chemicals and other unpalatable elements, and then a final filter. The line, originally calibrated to 0.45mm, now uses a 0.65mm filter "because we plugged all the time, even on city water," Davis said. "We're working on expanding the sensor to read mold numbers Keep dissolved oxygen levels to aminimum– prefill inerting or headspace conditioning. on the bottles." —Mary McCloughlin, Ryan Mobile Bottling Clean hygienic design for sensitive filling areas Vacuum Barrier and their select group of worldwide distributors. systems are sold only through Adjust to change For decades, cold glue was the norm for label application. Napa's Ryan Mobile Bottling (formerly Ryan McGee Bottling) was "the last of the Mohicans" among mobile bottlers to offer that messy method, said princi- pal Mary McCloughlin. "So few of our clients were using cold glue" that the company eliminated the option, given the prevalence and convenience of self-adhesive labels. Ryan recently added a new rotary labeler from Impresstik that optically orients the labels, allowing clients to use bottles without marker lugs. "It's much easier and more accurate," McCloughlin said. "We're also working on expanding the sensor to read mold numbers on the bottles," to locate the bottle seam when applying oversized labels. Principal engineer and operator 4 Barten Lane, Woburn,MA 01801 USA Tel 1-781-933-3570 Fax 1-781-932-9428 email: sales@vacuumbarrier.com www.vacuumbarrier.com 5 4 Y E A R S O F S E R V I C E QSEE US AT UNIFIED, BOOTH #205 46 Wines & Vines JAnUARY 2012 Andy Ryan is now rebuilding another truck to include a rotary labeler and a screwcapper to meet "a segment that is growing," McCloughlin affirmed. Ryan has received some client inquiries about short-runs using Zork all-in-one closures, but, "We would have to modify the spinner heads," and currently don't offer the service. The company has applied VinoSeal glass stoppers, virtually by hand, for one customer's 500-case run.