The facility will include a $2m repacking system designed to automatically transfer wine bottles from eight-foot high stacks of pallets to individual wineries’ custom, 12-bottle cartons, according to Andrew Bottene, vice president of TricorBraun’s wine packaging division.
Bottene said: “The current industry practice is to repack bottles into individual winery’s cases by hand. Our new system will allow us to provide a valuable service at a reduced price, and it will provide us with tremendous flexibility in meeting wineries’ needs.”
The new distribution centre will provide 65% more storage space than the present facility. TricorBraun WinePak is the preferred West Coast distributor for Verallia, formerly Saint Gobain Containers and a preferred West Coast distributor for the Amcor’s Stelvin line of aluminium screw caps and capsules. The company also supplies bag-in-box packaging and PET plastic wine bottles.
It is also a supplier for Saver Glass, Fevisa, Vetri Speciali and Asian imports.
Source: TricorBraun WinePak
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