This year’s Winery Engineers Association (WEA) Conference and Exhibition – WineEng 2014 – will be held at Serafino Winery in McLaren Vale, South Australia from 18-19 June 2014.
This is a significant and innovative event on the wine calendar as the conference concentrates on many aspects of wine production and is aimed at operational personnel.
Covering winemakers, engineering and maintenance staff, bottling and packaging management, general management and winery suppliers its goal is to ensure the Australian wine industry remains competitive both in the domestic and global markets.
The conference is important to the wine industry in the way it keeps key operational staff up to date with the latest global technological advancements therefore ensuring that the Australian wine industry retains its competitive edge wherever possible.
Registration for the conference and associated exhibition starts at 10am on Wednesday June 18 with the conference officially starting at 11am.
Some of the key areas that will be addressed will be:
- Value adding without cost adding.
- Juice flotation technology.
- Advanced decanter technology.
- Alternatives to bentonite.
- Fermentation facilities and improving fermentation performance.
- Reverse racking.
- New equipment management to ensure value adding.
- Solar power and hot water generation in the wine industry.
For more information visit the WEA website: www.wea.org.au
