DCA partners with Sidel for custom bottling end-of-line operation

Part of the LVMH group, Domaine Chandon Australia (DCA) is an Australian sparkling wine specialist and producer with genuine French heritage. DCA decided to collaborate with Sidel on a project to improve the efficiency of their bottling operations. By choosing Sidel’s expertise in complete end-of-line solutions, DCA was able to increase the utilization rate of their manufacturing assets and produce more consistent case stacking quality on pallets, outcomes that eventually led to improved downstream logistics operations. The fully automated Cermex WB46 Wrap-Around case packer – including a partition inserter module and coupled with the PalAccess palletizer – has enabled Domaine Chandon Australia to accommodate the growing local demand of premium wine. Chandon has a history going back decades when Moët and Chandon started to produce premium sparkling wines outside of France. Chandon’s founder, Robert-Jean de Vogüé, first traveled abroad in the late 1950s to collaborate with winemakers in foreign countries, applying his Champagne expertise to new world sparkling wine creation. In the mid-1980s, a team of Chandon’s experts discovered Green Point, an old dairy farm…

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