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J ANU AR Y NEWS NA VIGA TION both Sebastiani Vineyards and a major distributor. At Turrentine Brokerage, he will help wineries manage inventories to sustain brand growth and maximize cash flow through planning and the strategic use of the bulk wine market. Details: tur- rentinebrokerage.com. Amorim preserves 200-year-old wine Portuguese cork producer Amorim helped preserve 168 bottles of 200-year-old Champagne recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea off the coast of the Åland Archipelago. Amo- rim's technical Champagne team advised on replacing the 200-year-old cork stop- pers with new ones. The team developed a new stopper made from a single piece of natural cork to meet the specifications of the antique bottles. The company also provided manual bottling machines that allowed the recovery team to insert new corks at a location close to the shipwreck site. Details: corkfacts.com. Vigneron launches XpressFill Vigneron Specialty Products, San Luis Obispo, Calif., home of the XpressFill line of bottle filling machines, announced the launch of a new series named The Level Fill system. These one-, two- and four-bottle fillers are designed to fill each bottle to the exact level desired regardless of bottle variations. Options include gas sparging and speed flow rate variations. Details: xpressfill.com. Criveller_Jan11.qxp 11/11/10 6:16 PM Page 1 KLR becomes Bucher Vaslin KLR Machines Inc. has changed its name to Bucher Vaslin North America and will continue to be based in Sebastopol, Calif. The newly named company still carries a full line of winery equipment, parts and a fully accessible service department. De- tails: klrmachines.com. ASL Print FX earns awards ASL Print FX took the top prize at the 2010 Tag and Label Manufacturers Insti- tute awards meeting held in Boca Raton, Fla., for their Dan Aykroyd Sauvignon Blanc label. ASL Print FX operates two loca- tions: Vaughan, Ontario, and Winston-Salem, N.C. Details: aslprintfx.com. Dan Aykroyd Sauvignon Blanc label by ASL Print FX Precision Technology acquires Hypac Precision Technology of Roanoke, Va., has acquired Australia-based Hypac Pty. Ltd., a manufacturer of basket presses for premium winemaking. Hypac has basket press customers in the United QSEE US AT UNIFIED, BOOTH #H3 28 Wines & Vines JAnUARY 2011