PRIMA Industries Srl, in the context of the HORIZON 2020 program that finances the technological innovation of European Start-Up and SME, has successfully passed all the steps necessary to obtain the funding for to develop and design a line, called PBB1500, for cleaning and polishing bottles with limestone deposits, iridescence and other impurities that can accumulate during the aging period of wines in caves or in environments with widespread impurities.

The company, after having integrated the first draft of the project with all the economic / financial data aimed at demonstrating how the PBB1500, if used instead of the current cleaning methods, allows both Enormous savings in economic terms and processing times, with an extremely positive impact on the environment avoiding the theoretical emission into the atmosphere of thousands of tons of equivalent CO2, but also very high profitability margins that the prudential projections of the forecast sales of the first 5 years of marketing of the PPB1500 could generate, with the consequent creation of new jobs.
These projections and analyses were confirmed and validated by a commission of institutional expert investors selected by the EC which assigned a funding of over € 500,000 to the PBB1500 project and the possibility of negotiating equities for a value of almost € 1.5 million. The project was awarded for its highly innovative contents, out of over 2,000 presented by European Start-Up and SME in the session specifically dedicated to environmental protection, making it one of the three Italian companies awarded in this session for the absolute excellence of the PBB1500 project.

A particular appreciation was also expressed by important Champagne producers who made themselves available to collaborate in the development of the project, guaranteeing logistical support for the experimentation as well as for the verifications and validation of the PPB1500 washing and polishing line at their production’s plant.

The PPB project is supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation funding program, obtaining the initials from the EC and the initials of the grant agreement no. 101009302

This project has received funding from European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No876252

PRIMA Industries Srl, as part of the HORIZON 2020 program that finances European SME companies that make technological innovation, has obtained the funding foreseen in phase 1 of the program.

The company, after presenting the feasibility study, is drawing up the indispensable business plan to be able to access phase 2 of the program which provides for the granting of a grant with a maximum amount of € 2,500,000

The project concerns an innovative line, called PPB1500, for the cleaning and polishing of bottles with calcareous deposits, iridescences and other impurities that accumulate over the same years during the maturation of the wines in the cave according to the “Champenoise disciplinary”.

This patented line is therefore particularly suitable for solving the problems of discarded champagne bottles, but in general of sparkling wine bottles, for which the esthetical aspect has a strategic role in sales.

This project has been particularly appreciated by an important French Champagne producer that has made itself available to collaborate in this project providing a logistic support for the product development and being available to perform the necessary tests at their productive locations for to validate the product.

PRIMA LABELLING introduces the new DOCG 2.V banding machine, for sparkling wine and champagne. It's suitable for cylindric or conic bottles, warranting a production until 2.500 bottles/hour, it can include a photocell for capsule centering mark, photocell for bottom and side marks, push-bottle piston and it can be assembled on wheels or fixed position. The DOCG label can be 120 mm max long.

As further variant of the PLM 700 machine, the new automatic version is available with until 3 stations to apply front and back labels, and collar with optical centering.

It's small sized, permits an easy replacement of the bottle's format and the pressing of the capsules by means of a single head device.

Various optional parts can be fit, as listed in the attached technical sheet.

PRIMA LABELLING introduces the new DOCG 2.O banding machine, for still wine, sparkling wine and champagne. It's suitable for cylindric or conic bottles, warranting a production until 2.500 bottles/hour, it can include a photocell for capsule centering mark, photocell for bottom and side marks, push-bottle piston and it can be assembled on wheels or fixed position. The DOCG label can be 80 mm max long.

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