Portavin Margaret River Wine Bottling and Packaging Capabilities:

Static Wine Bottling Line 1:

• Bottle inversion and rinsing
• CO2 injection to bottle prior to filling
• Low vacuum filling
• CO2 injection and vacuum at corking
• Cork or screw closure application
• External Bottle Wash
• Capping with PVC, tin, aluminium or polylaminate caps
• Self adhesive labelling (3 heads)
• Case packing using glue or tape
• Bottle coding
• Label coding
• Batch coding (Carton/pallet) - apply stretch wrap

• 750ml Riesling
• 750ml Burgundy: Lightweight, Punted and Premium
• 750ml Claret: Lightweight, Punted, Premium, Super Premium and Reverse Taper
• 1,000ml Claret: Punted.
• Other bottles to those noted above, including imported, may be possible and samples will need to be submitted to ensure compatibility.
• Max bottle height 350mm.

• Max. 6,000bph.

• Depalletising - Scott Automation fully automatic sweep arm. Pallets with cardboard layer boards, cardboard nests, more that 4 layers of glass or some Reverse Taper glass must be manually depalletised.
   
• Filling MBF Synchrofill monoblock.
  • Inverted bottle rinsing using filtered UV sterilized water.
  • 28 head low vacuum filler using carbon dioxide or nitrogen for inert gas protection.
  • 4 head vacuum corker with headspace evacuation and either carbon dioxide or nitrogen injection, suitable for natural, agglomerate or synthetic corks.
  • 4 head screw cap applicator able to apply either 30x 60mm screw closures or internal threaded WAK closures.
     
• Bottle printer- ink jet 32 character capacity (Note: julian date and time =13 characters) to apply an identification code at base of bottle for traceability.
   
• External bottle washer- Tardito.
   
• Capsule applicator- Robino and Galandrino.
  • 4 head heat shrink for PVC capsules.
  • 4 head spin on for Tin or Polylaminate capsules.
     
• Labeller - PE Master 3 head for pressure sensitive (self adhesive) labels, applies sets of 3 labels, including front, back, split front, medals, neck labels and cigar band type labels. Able to print Lot numbers on either front or back label in 2mm or 3mm lettering prior to application.

• Erects and hot melt glue seals bottom of carton (6 and 12 pack upright and 12 pack laydown cartons). Carton configuration needs to be JR-R big panel, small panel format, as per the drawing below.
  
  

• Pick and Place (6 or 12 pack upright). All laydown configured cartons are hand packed
• Glue seals top of carton. Re-pack mode available (less glue applied to top flaps, useful if top of carton is to be opened and carton reused).

• Carton Printing- Imaje dot matrix ink jet, single line max 40 characters. Print can be no lower than 140mm from base of carton and no higher than 60mm from top.
• Carton Barcodes- Imaje Thermal Transfer, prints and applies one or two labels on adjacent sides of carton (label dimensions 108mm x 85mm). See “Carton- Barcode and Text Positioning” details below.
• Palletiser- Scott Machinery, fully automatic, capable of loading all common domestic or export configurations. The machine will accept a range of pallets but must be of a consistent size, please check with Portavin. Slip sheets or cardboard pallet sheets can be applied.

• Fill level inspection and automatic rejection, tolerance is ±1mm.
• Missing cork/screw closure inspection and auto rejection.
• Missing capsule inspection and auto rejection.
• Missing label inspection and auto rejection.

• Bulk wine delivered for bottling to be at 12-20degC, optimum wine temperature for bottling is 16-20 degrees Celcius.
   
• Filtration:
  For Portavin to provide the most efficient, cost effective bottling service, we recommend wines be delivered at turbidity levels suitable for the grade of filtration selected (see filtration chart in Technical and Oenological).
  
  For sterile filtration a turbidity of <1NTU is set to ensure wine being bottled does not block filters. Blocked filters can reduce efficiency, increase costs, incur wine losses and can contribute to variations in DO levels.
  
  Options for wines delivered with turbidity levels outside specification include filtration in the tank farm prior to bottling, review grade of filtration to be used at bottling, in-line filter during bottling. Portavin can measure turbidity prior to delivery if required.

• Front, back and other labels must be on separate rolls with right hand leading ie. Rolling direction number 3.

• Max. label width = 140mm Max. label height = 190mm
• Max roll diameter = 290mm Roll core diameter = 76mm
• Min. application height for front and back labels is 18mm from base of bottle and 65mm for medals etc.

• Bottle printer - ink jet 32 character capacity (Note: julian date and time =13 characters) to apply an identification code at base of bottle for traceability. 
   
• Label printing - Lot number print on either front or back label in 2mm or 3mm lettering prior to application.
   
• Carton Printing - Imaje dot matrix ink jet, single line max 40 characters. Print can be no lower than 140mm from base of carton and no higher than 60mm from top.
   
• Carton Barcodes - Imaje Thermal Transfer, prints and applies one or two labels on adjacent sides of carton (label dimensions 108mm x 85mm). For recommended positioning of barcode labels please click on this link to see
  “Carton - Barcode and Text Positioning details".

Static Wine Bottling Line 2:

• Fill 40ml-1,000ml softpacks (Cheerpacks)
• Apply screw cap
• Pack into cartons
• Print and apply barcodes
• Carton print
• Pack onto pallets and apply stretch wrap.

• 40ml – 1,000ml bottom or side gusset with artwork pre-printed.

• Max 480 pouches/hr or 1,200L/hr.

• Filler capper - Gualapack Spa CHP 40-3

• All client supplied dry goods must be at Portavin Margaret River by the Tuesday of the week prior to bottling.
• Bulk wine to arrive a minimum of 2 days prior to scheduled bottling date (within specification) and with agreement with Portavin’s Scheduler.