This year, APS Packaging, in collaboration with SIMEI, is offering an extraordinary opportunity to attend SIMEI’s four-day trade show and will be providing airfare, hotel accommodations, and logistics to a limited group of wine and spirit executives who apply by March 15, 2024. These include winemakers, purchasing managers, engineers, and CTOs, who are well-versed in identifying equipment that holds substantial value for their companies. Don’t miss out on this exclusive opportunity! There are only a few weeks left to apply for the SIMEI VIP trip in Milano, Italy. Read more…

Italy. The name alone conjures images of undulating grape vineyards traversing and defining its hillsides. Its long history of winemaking has resulted in generations of innovative Italian engineering in machinery and equipment for the wine industry.  This November, the International Trade Fair for Winemaking and Bottling Machinery (SIMEI) will hold its 30th edition in Milan, Italy. This biennial event is the world’s largest exhibition of machinery and equipment for the production, bottling, and packaging of wine and spirits. Featuring the world’s leading manufacturers, it has a 60-year tradition of showcasing state-of-the-art technology in Italian and international engineering.  “It's a great place to go,” says Italian-born Alberto Migliardi, CEO of APS Packaging. ”First, because it is in Italy. Second, because so many of the most innovative companies producing winery equipment are in Italy. You can meet them, see the details of their equip

ATPGroup is proud to partner with innovative leaders in winemaking equipment from around the world and introduce their technologies to the U.S. wine industry. Three of its partners were recognized and awarded for their innovations at the 29th annual SIMEI show in Milan, Italy last month. Green Innovation Award:  TMCI Padovan has been creating, designing, and producing innovative solutions for winemakers for more than 100 years and is known throughout the global wine world for its high-quality winemaking equipment and expertise in the filtration and thermal exchange of must, wine, and grape juice. The company received the Green Innovation Award at SIMEI for its “BioM COORe” technology, which they developed to recover CO2 from alcoholic fermentation and transfer it to the production of biomass for algae for food supply chains. New Technology Awards: Siprem International is a global leader in the development of unique, patented, cutting-edge products and pr

How ultrasounds and continuous tartaric stabilization can improve sustainability of quality wine production. Topics Covered: – The principles of ultrasound technology – Effect of ultrasounds in extraction of positive compounds from crushed grapes – Advantages of sonication on the treatment of yeast lees and wine aging – Practical application of ultrasounds in winemaking – The advantages of continuous tartaric stabilization in modern winemaking Speakers: Antonio MORATA, Professor of Food Science and Technology at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, specialized in wine technology. Professor of enology and wine technology in the European Master of Viticulture and Enology, Euromaster Vinifera-Erasmus+. Spanish delegate at the group of Experts in wine microbiology of the International Organizations of Vine and Wine (OIV). Author and editor of the recently released book White Wine Technology, winner of the OIV Award in 2019 Andrea NATOLINO, post-doc Re