Wineries
Selected Project Descriptions

TANK CHANNEL WRAPPING

Utilizing current technology and quality improvement techniques, Corey Delta installed “channel jackets” on eight 100,000 gallon tanks for a winery located in Healdsburg, California. The channel jackets were installed by using flexible track travel carriages, carrying water cooled wire feed track welders, to weld channel water jackets to the tank’s exterior walls.

 

RED WINE FERMENTATION PROJECT

This was a “fast track” project for a Sonoma County winery. This ground up project included excavation work and underground piping, new concrete slabs, fabrication and installation of structural steel systems, installation wine tanks and fabrication and installation of various types of conveyors and piping systems.

The press is being utilized as a common “rolling type” press which can accept must from seven different types of wine tanks. This process will determine which of the tanks will produce the best product and will assist with future expansion projects.

 

CRUSH FACILITY INSTALLATION

The crush and truck offloading facility involved numerous vendors and subcontractors coordinated by Corey Delta, acting as the General Contractor. Forty percent of the overall cost of our contract involved a mass excavation and concrete placement to allow for incoming and outgoing truck traffic. Our self-performed work included the installation of the dump hopper offloading hoist system, crusher/destemmer, pomace conveyors and related utility piping. The project was completed in approximately eight weeks.

 

PRESS AREA EXPANSION

Our main objective on this fast track project, while maintaining an impeccable safety record and quality control, was to finish all the necessary improvements before the harvest. The project included the onsite fabrication and installation of the 130’ long structural steel pipe bridge.

Also included in this project, was the fabrication and installation of over 6,000’ of stainless steel wine lines leading into a new bottling facility. The welding of the pipe was accelerated and quality was maintained by utilizing orbital welding machines.

This project was completed in fourteen weeks with zero lost time or recordable incidents expending 14,000 man hours.

 

BOTTLING LINE INSTALLATION

The central part of the project was the installation of a new Krones Mono Block Filler Machine; made up of four sections including an infeed table, a rinser, the filler and a corker. The assembled machine weighs in excess of 31 tons. With a rated capacity of 345 bottles per minute for 1.5L size bottles and 550 bottles per minute for 750ml size bottles, it is one of the fastest filler machines and bottling lines in existence in the world. Other major equipment installed included:

  • Krones “Glideliner” & labelers.
  • 1776-case Rolco empty case storage accumulator.
  • Hartness “Octopic” case unloader and rotary case packer.
  • Fanuc robotic case depalletizer.
  • Dynac floor bottle accumulator.
  • Standard-Knapp case slitter/sealer.
  • Deceleration tables, zero pressure in-liners, C-cappers, bottle and case inspection/rejection systems.
  • 1,700 feet of conveyor, including single and mass flow bottle, pallet and case conveyor.

 

ROTARY FERMENTER INSTALLATIONS

Over a two year span, Corey Delta, acting as General Contractor, installed 10 new rotary fermenters. The civil, structural framing, equipment setting, aluminum catwalks, must and utility piping were all installed utilizing Corey Delta crews. The subcontracted work included electrical, structural steel and catwalk fabrications. Engineering costs for this project were minimized with the use of owner/contractor engineering meetings and the use of plans and specifications from previous projects at the facility. Any additional engineering requirements were subcontracted by Corey Delta. This project was installed simultaneously with additional major upgrades that were all completed on a fast track schedule before harvest time.

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