March 7th – Santa Rosa, CA: TCW Equipment is pleased to announce its partnership with PROTEC equipment, the unequivocal leader in optical sorting technology. Protec produces innovative products for the food, wine-growing, seafood and agricultural sectors.
This alliance was established to collaborate on improving the U.S. based representation and service to the wine industry for PROTEC’s line of optical products. PROTEC’s optical sorters utilize entirely novel computer vision methods not available in any other machine on the market. The result is fruit that is more cleanly and effectively processed than with competitive optical sorters. In truth, there is no competition.
Optical sorting provides incredible benefits to winemakers that can’t be matched with manual sorting. While some traditionalists initially sniffed at the concept of computers sorting grapes, those same purists have been won over the huge advantages optical sorting offers: greatly reduced labor costs, increased sorting accuracy, and higher throughput. All of which lead to an improved final product. So if you’re going to go for optical sorting, you might as well go with the best, and that’s Protec. You can see Protec’s X-Tri Series of optical sorters here.
About PROTEC
Founded in 1990 and made in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, Protec was the vision of Luigi Sandei. He was aware of the innovative value of applying optical sensors to sorters, which reduced the harvesting work in the fields, and he used his own experience to manufacture the first “made in Italy” optical sorters.
About TCW
TCW serves the winemaking industry by selling and maintaining winery supplies and equipment including presses, destemmers, sorters, elevators, pumps, hoses, tanks, kegs, bottling equipment, filters, and much more. We are a family business operating out of Santa Rosa, CA and our team is as passionate about serving the community as we are. Our mission is to work together with winemakers to improve the innovation and success of the industry for all. In working with us you will find that we care about the success of your craft and your operations. You can reach us via phone, text message, email, or through our website which provides straightforward ordering.
TCW sells and services bottling equipment from Quinti, presses from Mori and Sraml, filter systems from Graver Technologies, pumps from Jabsco, Ragazzini, Ampco, Sandpiper, and Versa-Matic, cleaning and processing tools from Remco and Vikan, corkers from ElvaMac and tanks from Minox.
