Description
Overview
Traditional-method finishing line for cava, champagne and other sparkling wines.
Processes covered: riddling and neck freezing through disgorging, dosing, corking and wire hooding to capsuling, labelling and case sealing.
Machines are rated between 1,800 and 2,500 bottles/h.
Two stainless steel tanks complete the offer.
The line is sold as a whole; the gyropalettes and the two tanks are also available separately.
Technical Data
Product: sparkling wine, traditional method (cava, champagne).
Capacity: 1,800 to 2,500 bottles/h depending on the machine.
Bottle formats: Bordeaux and Burgundy/cava.
Years of manufacture: 1987 to 2018.
Electrical supply: 380-400 V, 50 Hz.
Included
Gyropalettes (Adresses Industrie 504 S, 1998): for 504-bottle metal cages or 500-bottle packs, approx. 6,000 bottles per batch, with control cabinet.
Balancer manipulator (Dalmec Partner PMC, 2005): pneumatic, max. load 80 kg (176 lb), bottle gripper head, unloads the cages into the neck freezer.
Neck freezer (Talleres Urpinas G+20 B, 2005): glycol/brine bath at -25 C (-13 F), touch panel, 2.28 kW (3.06 hp), 380 V, 2,000 bottles/h.
Disgorging and dosing monobloc (Perrier, 1987): crown cap removal, ice plug ejection, expedition liqueur dosing and levelling, approx. 50,000 bottles since the last general overhaul, original manual, 2,500 bottles/h.
Corker (Arol Gemini F, 2015): natural cork (mushroom) corking, single head.
Wire hooder (Robino & Galandrino Vittoria T 1/1 Junior, 2015): monobloc with the corker, wire hood plaque feeder, inclined long-duration wire hood magazine, touch panel, 400 V 50 Hz, original manual, 2,000 bottles/h; cork feeding and sorting hopper available as an option.
Bottle turner / homogeniser (Forns, 1987): continuous, mixes the expedition liqueur into the wine, 2,500 bottles/h.
Washing, drying and blowing tunnel (Cames WDT-1, 2018): exterior washing, high-speed sonic air knives, 400 V 50 Hz, 700 kg (1,543 lb).
Capsule applicator (C.M.A.R., 2001): capsule distributor with pleating and smoothing heads.
Labelling machine (Prima Industries PLM 1500, 2018): self-adhesive, 3 label stations plus neck collar, capsule orientation with spot and UV sensors, SICK photocells, star wheels for 75 mm (Bordeaux) and 89 mm (Burgundy/cava) bottles, 3 kW (4.02 hp), 400 V, 1,800 bottles/h.
Case sealer (Siat SK2-S, 2015): top and bottom adhesive tape sealing, 380 V, 3-phase.
Tank with agitator (Decalsa Industrial, 1988): 12,200 L (3,223 gal), agitator, heating and cooling coils, control box.
Tank (Magusa DPG, 2000): 10,000 L (2,642 gal), AISI 304 stainless steel.
Condition
Used, still installed and in production.
Regularly maintained; most machines have had one owner since new.
