Project description
Innovation for cleaning wine and champagne bottles
Cleaning and sterilising bottles is a difficult and costly procedure. The EU-funded PPB project provides an unprecedented solution that completely wipes out iridescence, lime scales or rust from wine or champagne bottles at a success rate of 70 %. It comprises nylon brushes impregnated with silicon-carbide resin; polishing using bespoke cotton spindles and a final checking stage that scans if the bottles are clean and sorts them accordingly. The EUR 55 000 device is expected to save champagne and wine producers two to three euros for every defaced bottle, avoiding the costly transfer of its contents to a clean bottle.
Objective
In this project, we present an unprecedented solution - PPB; a 3-staged automatic line to completely remove iridescence, lime scales or rust from wine or champagne bottles at a success rate of 70%. It comprises cleaning, effected by nylon brushes impregnated with silicon-carbide resin; polishing using bespoke cotton spindles and a final checking stage that scans if the bottles are clean and sorts them accordingly. The complete line will be sold at a price of €55,000.This automated solution will save champagne/wine producers wine ca €2-3 for every defaced bottle it cleans, by avoiding the transfer of its contents to a clean bottle; a process that compromises wine quality and incurs logistic, bottle inventory and wine spillage costs. For instance, Moet & Chandon, the first client to request such a solution from us, stands to save €11,2million when 70% of its 8million waste bottles pa are cleaned, avoiding wine transfers. Moreover, this machine can reclaim millions of waste bottles stockpiled by producers. Due to the ground-breaking nature and high relevance of our solution, we expect to capture 90% of the champagne suppliers by selling 300 units of PPB within the first 5 years of commercialisation generating a revenue of €16.5millon cumulative profit of €4.125million and a ROI of 2.41for PRIMA. Such a wide uptake would attract Europe wide savings of at least €94.5million pa for the successfully cleaned bottles (0.9*0.7* €150million loss associated with waste bottles). Our phase 1 technical feasibility study will cover the optimisation of parameters like brush rotation speed vs pressure vs temperature rise at an increased throughput (from the current 1,200 to 3000 bottles/hr); definition of maintenance requirements and listing of the bill of materials. We will also conduct a detailed market and risk assessment then draft an IPR strategy and business plan.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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42015 Correggio
Italy
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