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Swiss-based beer filtration systems supplier, Bucher Unipektin, a subsidiary of Bucher Industries, has announced the acquisition of Czech company Denwel. Founded in 1997, Denwel provides specialised cold block equipment for breweries. The acquisition will help Bucher Unipektin to strengthen its beer processing capabilities and technologies, and enable it to supply its brewery customers with entire cold block processing lines, "complementing its high-tech beer filtration systems with Denwel's water deaeration, blending, carbonation, nitrogenation, dosing, CIP and flash pasteurisation systems". Bucher Unipektin will now operate under a new name, Bucher Denwel. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.