Monday, May 16, 2016

Amorim cork invests 10 million euros in technology … – Economic

The Ceibo Amorim has launched the innovative technology market for the industry of stoppers offering for the first time the winery natural cork stoppers with TCA guarantee undetectable in only 20 seconds.

The new technology is the culmination of an investment of 10 million euros, conducted over five years, R & amp;. D and was done in partnership with an international company specializing in gas chromatography

in a statement Corticeira Amorim explains that “NDTech is a tip which allows a revolution in quality control technology, inasmuch as it introduces for the first time an individual sorting lines of production of cork stoppers, based on gas chromatography, of the chemical analysis more sophisticated world, “

the gas chromatography analysis takes about 14 minutes with this new technology Corticeira Amorim was able to reduce the time of analysis to 20 seconds” enabling its integration on an industrial scale. “

the president of Ceibo Amorim, says in a statement that “a strong company commitment to provide the market continuously, quality of cork stoppers has been instrumental in strengthening the role of Amorim Ceibo as industry leader that in recent years 5 years, saw its sales go stoppers 3 billion to a new record of 4.2 billion euros in 2015. “

Rios Amorim believes that” this growth results part of a larger overall perception of the techniques and sustainability advantages of cork stoppers, as well as the capacity that it must provide value to the wine. With NDTech simply have become better than that is the best closure for wine. “

The new technology is able to detect any cork to submit more than 0.5 nanograms / liter (parts per trillion) TCA automatically removing the production line. A surprising level of precision in industrial scale since the detection limit of 0.5 nanograms / liter may be equivalent to a drop of water in 800 Olympic swimming pools.

NDTech was validated by the German Geisenheim University and the Australian wine research Institute, two entities world’s leading research associated with the wine industry.

in this first phase the NDTech technology will be applied to the range of premium natural cork stoppers CORTICEIRA Amorim, used by some of the brands of the world’s major wine.

Carlos Jesus, communications director of the Ceibo in remarks to the Economic stresses’ the fact that this technology is amazing and more surprising still was developed in Portugal. ” Carlos Jesus’ return on investment has already begun, but the important thing to note is the international dimension of this project “

And there is:.” As provided receptivity of wine producers have been, as provided, very positive. “

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