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November 2017 WINES&VINES 27 PRODUCT NEWS a battery-powered electromag- netic flow meter for water man- agement. The company reports the meter includes a three- and five-year battery life warranty, ef- fectively eliminating the need for AC power cables. According to the supplier, the Dura Mag comes equipped with an internal data logger and features several telem- etry-ready output options, a USB port-accessible converter setting, and fits common line sizes from 4 inches to a 12-inch diameter pipe. mccrometer.com Vogelsang names new NorCal distributor Vogelsang announced the com- pany's wine pump division has partnered with Thomas & Associ- ates, a Northern California pump equip- ment dis- tributor. Thomas & Associ- ates will now be Volgelsang Wine Pump Division's main point of contact for sales and support questions for the Northern Cali- fornia region. Vogelsang provides both mobile and stationery wine pumps for the wine industry. thomaspumps.net Free app for vineyard management The Vineyard Advisor is a new vineyard-management app devel- oped by Ed Hellman, professor of viticulture at Texas Tech Universi- ty and viticulture extension spe- cialist with Texas A&M Agrilife Extension, with funding by the American Vineyard Foundation. The app provides recommenda- tions for 350 problems afflicting grapes nationwide, including con- trol strategies and action thresh- olds, natural controls and cultural practices and organic materials and pesticides. The app also pro- vides links to the app user's agri- cultural extension service and pesticide regulations based on the user's location. The app is available for free downloads for iOS and Android devices. Intuitive, touch-screen wine analyzer Randox released the RX misano analyzer that features a responsive touch-screen display and ergo- nomic design with intuitive soft- ware that enables the user to customize the test menu. The de- vice can run analysis in cuvette or flow cell mode, and Randox offers 18 testing kits including malic acid, acetic acid, glucose and fructose, NOPA and others with reagents that have a shelf life of two years. The supplier also reports the ana- lyzer's user-friendly interface and menus can enable someone with no laboratory experience to oper- ate the device. randox.com Three layers of crop data in one flight Sentera announced its Omni quadcopter drone can now cap- ture three distinct crop health data measurements in one flight: thermal, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and high- resolution RGB by pairing the DJI XT thermal sensor with Omni's standard Double 4K sensors. The data can be used to find injured or diseased plants as well as as- certain the effectiveness of an ir- rigation system. sentera.com 'Last mile' logistics for wine delivery JF Hillebrand, an international lo- gistics provider for beer, wine and spirits producers, acquired Side- kick Delivery to provide "last mile" logistics in California. JF Hillenbrand was founded in 2014 with the sole focus of wine and beer delivery and will now oper- ate out of JF Hillebrand's ware- house and office in Napa, Calif. jfhillebrand.com For more inFormation about the WineLab touch, contact atPgrouP at (707) 836-6840 or onLine at WWW. atPgrouP.com Introducing CDR WineLab Touch -The Future of Wine Testing- It's versatile. The WineLab Touch can perform 16 tests simultaneously. It's affordable. The CDR WineLab Touch is an exclusive of ATPGroup. Reliable, precise, fast, any winery, large or small, can afford it. It's reliable. The WineLab Touch is extremely dependable. It comes with a 3~year warranty. It's simple. The WineLab Touch requires no special training. Just add a sample to the pre-vialed reagent and go. It's accurate. The WineLab Touch has 25 pre-calibrated tests for SO2, sugars, polyphenols, nitrogen, color and many more. It's fast. It will print readings of must and wine in a matter of minutes.