With the new Europress-Cool you can cool the grapes before and during the pressing cycle.

Negative temperature influences can be excluded and you keep cool even if the harvest should be to hot again.

The press has a big cooling zone on the drum (appr. 2/3 of the cylindric drum surface), made of laser welded pillow plates. Due to the given flow circuit, a very effective cooling/heating is given. The new Europress with cooling jacket can be used to cool down and keep the grapes cool, to pre-cool the drum before filling, to warm up grapes that come in at a too cool temperature and so enables a better pressing. Furthermore it could be used for maceration time, cold maceration and to slow down the biological activities. The cooling jacket gives the possibility to adapt the temperature of the grapes to the desired enological steps and needs and can be run with water, water-glycol-mixture and glycol as well. As it runs in a close circuit, a permanent adding of media is not required. The desired inlet temperature is chosen on the customer’s cooling unit. The inlet and outlet of the cooling media is via the axial in-feed unit, but the diameter of the axial in-feed is not reduced with that construction.