Practical Winery and Vineyard’s latest cover story has a great shot of the huge wine barrels made by Oak Cooperage. We have installed many of our Infinity tables in the wine industry in California and Australia. They raise throughput by protecting fillers from downtime on labelers and casepackers.

A typical mass flow or bi-directional table puts tremendous pressure on bottles. How do you prove that your accumulation table has no backpressure? Put a raw egg on the conveyor with a few rows of filled wine bottles and see what happens. Starring Lord William Chatterton III: The products stay in continuous motion because of [...]

A while back I wrote a recap of a project we worked on for Rodney Strong Vineyards (love their Cabernet, by the way) on their reverse tapered bottle line. The recap appeared in Practical Winery and Vineyard. Reverse tapered bottles are wider at the top than the bottom. Our Infinity accumulation tables helped them bottle [...]