Automatically Dosing Sulfurous Acid Solution In-Line Using TCW’s Peristaltic Dosing System.  Ragazzini Rotho PSF Peristaltic Dosing PumpA customer approached TCW requesting that we use our dosing equipment to find a simpler way to add H2SO3 in-line to freshly destemmed and crushed grapes. They wanted a system that would automatically sulfite the grapes as they pumped them from their destemmer to their tanks. This customer is a well-known, high-end winery that produces several hundred thousand cases per year, and has a strong focus on biodynamic farming and environmental responsibility.  The customer, a large well known winery group, also has a Ragazzini Rotho MS3T peristaltic must pump on site which they are very satisfied with because of its simple operation, rugged construction, and easy maintenance. They wanted to dose H2SO3 directly into the outlet of their larger Ragazzini must pump as it transfers grapes from a destemmer to their tanks, eliminating the need t

Santa Rosa, CA: TCW Equipment is pleased to announce its partnership with PROTEC equipment, the unequivocal leader in optical sorting technology. Protec produces innovative products for the food, wine-growing, seafood and agricultural sectors. This alliance was established to collaborate on improving the U.S. based representation and service to the wine industry for PROTEC’s line of optical products. PROTEC’s optical sorters utilize entirely novel computer vision methods not available in any other machine on the market. The result is fruit that is more cleanly and effectively processed than with competitive optical sorters. In truth, there is no competition.  Optical sorting provides incredible benefits to winemakers that can't be matched with manual sorting. While some traditionalists initially sniffed at the concept of computers sorting grapes, those same purists have been won over the huge advantages optical sorting offers: greatly reduced labor costs, increased