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After three years of intense work, the winery was delighted this winter to mount its autonomous unit on a New Holland machine, which will handle distribution. Next year, 100 hectares will be pruned using R2T2.

Friday April 16 2021

They say this robot will prune as well as a winegrower

The R2T2 project, endorsed by Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation and granted funding of 3 million euros, has just won the Agri Sud-Ouest high school
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The first results collected during the 2019 season on the Piolenc site showed that vines shaded by the equipment withstood soaring summer temperatures better than the others.

Thursday April 15 2021

26 photovoltaic projects in French vineyards for Sun'Agri

Winegrowers in the South of France are pioneering the development of agrivoltaics: among the 37 Sun'Agri projects selected in the “innovative (...)
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These initial tests still need to be confirmed by further trials.

Thursday March 18 2021

First tests, and effects, of exoskeletons on winegrowers’ backs

Once you’ve tried it, you’ll want to keep it. After a week of exoskeleton tests at the beginning of March on several different (...)
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The Eima equipment trade fair attracted 230,000 visitors at its last edition in 2018 in Bologna.

Thursday May 14 2020

Good news, Eima is open for business this year

The second highest performing trade event in its field, after Agritechnica, the Eima trade fair, which was due to be held in Bologna from (...)
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A Pellenc production line in Pertuis.

Friday April 03 2020

Equipment factories shut down due to the coronavirus crisis

The Case New Holland Industrial group made a radical decision on Friday March 20 when it announced the shutdown of all its European production (...)
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“We come as a complement, not as a replacement for the tractor”, explained Fabien Arignon on November 26 at Sitevi.

Monday December 02 2019

A new hybrid robot for winegrowers

“So this thing is a tractor”. The comment much amused and flattered Fabien Arignon, managing director of Nantes-based SME Sitia (...)
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Since 2014, France has been the leading market for French barrels, ahead of the United States.

Monday October 28 2019

In five years, the price of French barrels has increased by 11%.

In 2018, the 58 members of the French Cooperage Federation marketed 670,000 casks worldwide worth 475.6 million euros, equating to increases (...)
Tuesday June 25 2019 - Equipment by Vitisphere
Sofia Ribeiro (left) event manager at the Marne Chamber of Commerce and Nolwenn Desmaret-Quisnel, director of economic development at the Epernay Champagne agglomeration community, presented the recipients of the Innovation Awards organised as part of Viteff.

Discover the 5 innovation awards at Viteff 2019

On June 20, Viteff, which takes place from October 15 to 18 in Epernay, released the names of the recipients of its Innovation Awards. In (...)
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Wednesday May 29 2019 - Equipment by Vitisphere
Dr Mark Whitty, senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Australia, outlines the current state of play for the use of robots in the wine industry.

Robotics: “Winemakers are unlikely to be out of a job anytime soon”

Dr Mark Whitty is senior lecturer in the Mechatronics discipline within the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University (...)
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Thursday October 18 2018 - Equipment by Vitisphere
The new touring event is aimed at creating “innovations and technical solutions', explained Delphine Demade.

Vinitech will preach wine innovation around the world

“To promote the excellence and strength of technical research in the New Aquitaine region, we will organise one to three events abroad (...)
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Friday October 27 2017 - Equipment by Vitisphere

Four firms receive National Wine and Digital Awards

As part of the Montmartre harvest festival on October 16 in Paris, the recipients of the National Wine and Digital Awards were officially (...)
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Wednesday September 14 2016 - Equipment by Vitisphere

VineRobot maps colour intensity in grapes

Using an on-board anthocyanin sensor, VineRobot has demonstrated the precision of its mapping technology in the vineyards of Buzet. (...)
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Thursday December 10 2015 - Equipment by Vitisphere

Bottle closures: The environmental advantage of screwcaps

During a conference organised by Aluminium Closures on November 25 at the vineyard and winery equipment show Sitevi in Montpellier, Isabelle (...)
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Wednesday July 09 2014 - Equipment by Vitisphere

Wooden barrels and vats: the New World, a growth driver for “Made in France”

  The French coopers federation, the Fédération des Tonneliers de France (FTT) has just elected Jean-Luc Sylvain, the managing director (...)
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Monday November 25 2013 - Equipment by Kelsie Adams

Are Pellenc posed to overtake New Holland on the harvesting machines market ?

With 34% of the global market share in the harvesting maching industry, French company Pellenc, which is based in Pertuis, is the second (...)
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Thursday June 27 2013 - distribution by Vitisphere

Chinese retailers more keen for wine origin than original bottleshape

The last study carried out by Ubifrance and the OI group (Owens-Illinois, the world's leading manufacturers of wine bottle) bent over (...)
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Wednesday March 13 2013 - Equipment by Vitisphere

Wood-ageing: wine barriques go cubic

Spanish company Roc Cuve describes its patented innovation as « a revolutionary concept for storage and ageing in wood », (...)
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Thursday February 28 2013 - Equipment by Vitisphere

Brettanomyces : "No barrel is 100 % steril after cleaning"

"Are there more Brettanomyces in cellars nowadays than there used to be? I do not know ... One thing is for certain: the more you look (...)
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Thursday February 28 2013 - Equipment by Vitisphere

Flexitanks : the new face of bulk wine transportation

For their shipments, bulk wine can be packaged in two forms: flexitank container or tank. A flexitank can be pictured as an XXL-sized bag-in-box®: (...)
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