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APRIL NEWS Product News New Holland launches Global Package Winery & Grower Product News: Send us your latest offerings and announcements by e-mailing suppliernews@winesand- vines.com. Items may be edited for clarity and brevity. Napa Technology enhances WineStation Napa Technology launched a new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant AccuServe Smartcard Universal Design Module for its WineStation dispensing unit, which lowers the control pan- els to provide easy access for consumers in wheelchairs. Details: napatechnology.com. limited edition harvester New Holland Agriculture, New Hol- land, Pa., celebrated the 50th anniver- sary of its self-propelled forage harvest- er with the anniversary edition of New Holland's FR9000 series, produced in a limited run of 50 units worldwide. Details: newholland.com/na. 100% Cork pops new site 100% Cork, San Francisco, Calif., recently launched CorkWatch, an online directory of more than 1,500 wines sealed with natural cork. Details: 100percentcork.org. SureHarvest extends grower relations tool SureHarvest announced an expansion of the SureHarvest Farming Management Information Systems (MIS) offering for managing grower relations. By provid- ing data collection tools for grower reps, companies can extend the SureHarvest technology for improved yield estimation and quality management to contract growers. Details: sureharvest.com. Sonoma Wine Co. joins with Winesecrets Sonoma Wine Co., the full-service crush-to-bottle contract winery service provider has partnered with Winesecrets to offer cross- platform services to their respective clients. Details: sonomawine- co.com and winesecrets.com. O-I slims down Glass manufacturer Owens-Illinois, Perrysburg, Ohio, is expanding its line of lightweight wine bottles in North America. The 750ml bottles, manufactured in California, weigh 14 ounces and are part of the O-I Lean+Green initiative. Details: o-i.com. Yale elevates new lift truck Yale Materials Handling Corp., Greenville, N.C., has unveiled its next generation of electric lift trucks with the ERC-VA series. The new series was designed to lower overall operating costs and energy consumption while maximizing productivity. Details: yale.com. 26 Wines & Vines APRiL 201 1 spins new bottle Global Package, Napa, Calif., announced its new Berasategui System bottle, designed by Basque restaurateur wine sediments from reaching the Details: globalpackage.net. Martin Berasategui to prevent wine glass during decantation. G3 expands closure options G3 Closure Division adds Royal 90 Performa to screwcap pro- duction capabilities. Under the Royal 90 Performa design option, distortion printing enables G3 to offer customers a lower cost al- ternative to tra- ditional top and side printed caps. Details: g3enter- prises.com. Intelligrated sorts it out Mason, Ohio-based Intelligrated announced the IntelliSort tilt-tray, double-tray and cross-belt solutions as the latest additions to its line of IntelliSort sortation solutions, which also include sliding shoe, pop-up wheel and strip belt sorters. Details: intelligrated.com. GCoP extends eviticulture Created by the Grape Community of Practice (GCoP) and extension, eViticulture offers the lat- est in science-based information for viticulturists. Details: eviticulture.org. T&D debuts data collector T&D Corp., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., introduced its RTR-500DC, a handheld wireless data collec- tor designed to monitor items that are in motion or for which physical access to the data logger is inconvenient or impractical. Details: tandd.com. The ABCs of depalletizing A-B-C Packaging and Machine Corp., Tarpon Springs, Fla., in- troduced a sweep-off style bulk depalletizer with special features to run reverse taper bottles and unstable lightweight containers. Details: abcpackaging.com. iPhone app by ivinoX iVinoX, Windsor, Calif., developed an iPhone app to connect wineries with wine enthusiasts planning wine tasting tours. Details: ivinox.com. TeeJet guides growers TeeJet Technologies, Springfield, Ill., introduced the Matrix Pro Guidance System with RealView video-based guidance. As the newest generation of the Matrix guidance system, Matrix Pro helps save time by storing multiple field boundaries and guidelines for use in future operations. Details: teejet.com.