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26 WINES&VINES May 2018 WINE INDUSTRY NEWS SUPPLIER NEWS ATP opens Washington warehouse Winemaking products supplier ATPGroup announced the opening of a new warehouse in Grandview, Wash. The new facility is now ATPGroup's fourth warehouse on the West Coast. The company also operates locations in the California cities of Paso Robles, Fresno and Windsor. The new warehouse is intended to help ATPGroup better serve customers in the Pacific Northwest by pro- viding reduced freight expenses, shorter shipping times as well as increased inventory and product availability. The 10,000-square- foot facility will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and will carry a full product port- folio of brand names for use in the wine, craft beer, cider, spirit and food industries. AWDirect now offering canning Santa Rosa, Calif.-based AW- Direct, which provides wine and grape sourcing, brand develop- ment and sales support, is now offering wine canning services by The Can Van. The suppliers can provide 187ml, 250ml and 375ml cans in 24-can cases for domestic or international varietal and blended wines. "Given the explosive growth in demand for wine in a can, we're excited to offer this service to our current and future clients," said AWDi- rect USA's founder and general manager Bruce Cunningham in a press release announcing the new service. Berlin Packaging acquires Erben Berlin Packaging in Chicago an- nounced its acquisition of H. Erben Ltd., a supplier of closures, packaging and packaging equip- ment based in Hadleigh, Eng- land. The deal includes Erben's subsidiary California Capsules, operations in South Africa and the website TheBottleJarStore.co.uk. According to the press release announcing the deal, Berlin Pack- aging is a $2.6 billion supplier of packaging products across mul- tiple sectors and purchased Bruni Glass in 2016. Following the buy- out of Erben, the company now has offices throughout Europe as well as South Africa, China and North America. Vinventions acquires screwcap maker Vinventions in Zebulon, N.C., an- nounced it acquired the 30 x 60 wine screwcap business of the Ital- ian firm Alplast S.r.l. Following the deal, Vinventions adds more than 200 million wine screwcaps to its portfolio making it the third largest screwcap supplier in the world, according to a statement released by the two companies. Alplast will produce the screwcaps for Vinven- tions at its factory in Tigliole, Italy, and the Alplast name will become an additional brand for Vinventions and encompass litho-printed and offset printed screwcaps. Oenodia now in the Central Coast Oenodia North America an- nounced a partnership with Electrotec Service Company in Paso Robles, Calif., to provide the STARS treatment for tartrate stabilization and pH adjustment to wineries in California's Central Coast. Electrotec is an estab- lished mobile service provider offering a variety of services in- cluding metered Velcorin dosing and crossflow filtration. Vinfolio receives new investment Wine sales and services provider Vinfolio.com announced it se- cured a new investment of capital and changed its leadership team to gain a greater share of the U.S. fine wine market. CEO Don St. Pierre Jr. and partner Allan War- burg have invested an additional $5 million in the company to se- cure a majority ownership stake. The company also announced a new leadership team that includes Kevin Zollinger, chief operations officer; Cristina Hall, chief market- ing officer; Adam Lapierre, MW, director of procurement; and Leah Hammer, director of cellar acquisitions. The company also released a new mobile app to integrate fine wine sales, cellar management, wine storage and content.