Tag: Wastewater
Shadybrook Estates Manages Water Use and Production Cost with the Help of Specially Designed Tanks
In California, no resource is more important than water, which is why water management has been a top priority in the wine community for years. For the award-winning Napa winery, Shadybrook Estates, water saving is even more imperative because its facility operates as a ‘hold and haul’ production facility, meaning that all their wastewater needs […]
Cambrian Innovation and Seismic Brewing Partner in Bid for Most Water Efficient Brewery
New Sonoma County Brewery Announces Purchase of Cambrian’s EcoVolt Solution BOSTON and SANTA ROSA, Calif. — May 3, 2016 — Cambrian Innovation, provider of distributed water and wastewater solutions for industrial producers, today announced a partnership with a new Sonoma County brewery. Seismic Brewing Company is in the midst of construction on their state-of-the-art brewery […]
Fetzer Vineyards Announces Installation of Regenerative BioFiltro BIDA® Water Filtration System, Using Worms & Microbes to Treat Winery Wastewater
Leading Regenerative Business Is First American Winery to Use Innovative Water System at Scale HOPLAND, Calif., April 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Fetzer Vineyards, a leader in regenerative winegrowing, is revolutionizing the way U.S. wineries conserve water, announcing today that it will install the BioFiltro BIDA® System at its Mendocino winery. In doing so, Fetzer Vineyards will […]
Northern United Brewing Company Installs Cambrian Innovation’s EcoVolt Mini
Cambrian Launches Groundbreaking, Small-Scale Wastewater Treatment Solution BOSTON and DEXTER, Mich. — November XX, 2015 — Cambrian Innovation, provider of distributed water and wastewater solutions for industrial producers, today announced Northern United Brewing Company (NUBC) is the first customer to install Cambrian’s EcoVolt® Mini. The EcoVolt Mini converts high-strength wastewater into reusable quality water in one simple […]
Cambrian Innovation Launches $30M Fund to Finance Distributed Clean Water Solutions
Water-energy purchase agreement eliminates upfront costs for onsite clean water and energy solutions BOSTON — November 18, 2015 — Cambrian Innovation, provider of biotechnology solutions for industrial partners, today announced the launch of a pioneering financing vehicle for distributed clean water and energy solutions backed by a $30M fund. Under the new financing mechanism, called a water-energy purchase […]
Water Conservation, Sustainability Central to Craft Brewery Operations
It wasn’t Peter Kruger’s intention to become a sustainability expert at Bear Republic Brewery – but then, it wasn’t really his intention to get involved with the commercial craft brewing industry at all.
Jackson Family Wine Buys BlueMorph Waterless Tank Sanitation System
by Kim Badenfort Wednesday morning Tom Beard Company delivered the first commercial BlueMorph UV sanitation unit to Jackson Family Wines in Windsor CA, and Co-Founder and Alex Farren, CEO of BlueMorph, was on site to hand it over the to an excited JFW team. Over the past year Jackson Family Wines have been testing a […]
Afternoon Brief, July 22
Grape Harvest Off to an Early Start in Napa Valley: George Sanchez said he’s been harvesting grapes for 40 years. On Wednesday, his seasonal ritual began earlier than ever in a Napa Valley vineyard soaked in a morning glow…
New GOfermentor Technology Makes Waterless Winery A Reality
What if… you could eliminate oxygen and water completely from the winemaking process while, at the same time, reduce your labor costs and create better quality wines? NEW JERSEY, JULY 18th 2015 – A new technology called GOfermentor, set to revolutionize the winemaking process in the areas of oxygen control and water waste, has been released […]
Cambrian Innovation unveils the EcoVolt Membrane Bioreactor
New polishing system efficiently cleans wastewater for broad reuse applications BOSTON and PETALUMA, CALIF. — July 10, 2015— Cambrian Innovation, provider of advanced biotechnology products for industrial businesses, announced today a major new product line, the EcoVolt® Membrane Bioreactor (MBR). Extending and enhancing Cambrian’s distributed water offerings for growing industrial businesses, the EcoVolt® MBR is a polishing process […]
Afternoon Brief, December 15
Wine Country vintners turn to truffles: On the edge of his Sonoma vineyard aptly named Scintilla, vintner Robert Sinskey has yanked out grapevines to make room for a few hundred oak and filbert trees. Its all part of a daring venture that may come to fruition or folly as early as next winter…
Afternoon Brief, November 10
Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines Unveiling Begins Today:
After tasting 18,000 wines from vineyards around the globe, the editors at Wine Spectator are set to release their much-anticipated list of the Top 100 Wines of 2014…
Afternoon Brief, October 10
California aquifers contaminated with billions of gallons of fracking wastewater:
Industry illegally injected about 3 billion gallons of fracking wastewater into central California drinking-water and farm-irrigation aquifers, the state found after the US Environmental Protection Agency ordered a review of possible contamination…
Constellation Pilots Innovative BioFiltro Wastewater Treatment System
Constellation plans to put millions of earthworms to work in 2015. Don’t worry, they won’t be making the wine, they’ll be cleaning the wastewater from winery operations. BioFiltro is currently running a trial of their BIDA® System at Constellation Brands’ winery in Madera, California, and if all goes as expected, a new BioFiltro installation with […]
Afternoon Brief, September 8
Napa, Sonoma wineries examine safety of barrel rooms after quake:
Though 14 years ago, Bob Torres still vividly remembers the day he and other wine industry officials saw a demonstration at UC Berkeleys earthquake simulator on the effects of a magnitude 7.4 temblor on a rack of wine barrels stacked six high…
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