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December 2017 WINES&VINES 21 WINE INDUSTRY NEWS scribes its planned augmented reality, virtual reality and sensory reality consumer laboratory, to be known as R3CL, will be able to create a variety of environments in which people pur- chase and consume wines. EWE returns to Lancaster in March The Eastern Winery Exposition (EWE) will be held March 6-8, 2018, at the Lancaster County Convention Center in Lancaster, Pa. Registra- tion for the conference and hotel rooms is now open. Two day-long workshops (one on spar- kling wine and a second on managing microbes) will take place March 6. The EWE conference program for March 7 and 8 includes sessions about enology, viticulture and money/market- ing/management. For the second year, EWE is partnering with the License to Steal (LTS) con- ference produced by the Ohio Wine Producers Association. LTS features sessions on the pro- motion, marketing and sales of regional wines for anyone involved with wine sales. For more information, visit easternwineryexposition.com. SUPPLIER NEWS Trefinos launches U.S. operation Spanish cork producer Trefinos SL has opened an office and warehouse in California. The com- pany's new venture in the United States coin- cides with its development of the CWINE brand of technical cork closures that are produced with Trefinos' process to treat cork granules with super-critical carbon dioxide to strip out TCA and other impurities. The suppler offers an individual guarantee on the closures available in three dif- ferent ranges of permeability. Based in Girona, Spain, Trefinos has produced corks for more than 250 years. The company is printing, coating and filling orders from a facility in Napa, Calif. TricorBraun hires president, CEO TricorBraun, the St. Louis, Mo.-based global packaging company that includes wine-packag- ing supplier TricorBraun WinePak, named Court Carruthers its president and CEO. Carruthers is replacing Keith Strope, who will become ex- ecutive chairman. Carruthers worked with AEA Investors during the past two years and has served on TricorBraun's board of directors since AEA's purchase of the company. He previously spent 13 years with W.W. Grainger Inc., serving in various global leadership roles, most recently as president of the Americas group. Strope has worked for TricorBraun for 36 years. He was ap- pointed COO in 1997 and CEO in 2002. Next generation takes over cooperage The Nadalié Group announced ownership of the 115-year-old cooperage has been trans- ferred to the fifth generation of the Nadalié family. Siblings Christine, Stephane, Guillaume and Vincent now own the Medoc, France- based company that includes Nadalié USA in Calistoga, Calif., Tonnellerie Nadalié, Tonnel- lerie Marsannay and other brands. In their new positions, Vincent Nadalié will act as president of Nadalié USA while continuing to oversee its sales team, Stephane Nadalié will be president of the Nadalié Group, and Guillaume Nadalié will remain president of Nadalié Oak Add ins. Christine Nadalié will continue to act as vice president of sales for the Nadalié Group as well as general manager of Marsannay, and will re- main the winemaker of her two brands, Beau- Rivage and Clos la Boheme. Stephane Nadalié (from left), Guillaume Nadalié, Vincent Nadalié and Christine Nadalié are fifth-gen- eration owners of the family cooperage.