High-Industrial Wine Filtration: Flavy FGC
- Large-scale wine clarification.
- Continuous, inline protein stabilisation for white and rosé wines using inline Bentonite UF injection.
- Large-volume batch processing and automatic multi-tank sequencing.
- White and Rosé Wines: 50 to 320 hl/h (model dependent, from FGC 1 to FGC 4).
- Red Wines: 25 to 200 hl/h.
- Inline Bentonite Injection: 25 to 140 hl/h.
- Eco-Energy Technology: Patented processes adjust parameters to cut electricity use by half on average, and by up to 30 times for white wines compared to standard market filters.
- Non-Stop Back-Filtration: Continuous skid-by-skid gas back-filtration ensures operations do not pause during self-cleaning.
- Resource Savings: Drastically cuts waste volumes, water use, and cleaning chemicals.
High-volume, manual tank fining creates large, messy tank bottoms (accounting for 3% to 5% of total volume) that delay bottling and require heavy water use to clean.
The FGC's option for inline bentonite injection eliminates separate fining steps. It clarifies and protein-stabilises white/rosé wines in one single pass, getting product to bottling faster and reducing pump and vat cleaning.
Versatile, Premium Wine & Cider Filtration: Flavy X-Wine
- Filtering raw wines with high turbidity, fined wines, and young wines.
- Handling heavy red wines derived from thermovinification.
- Processing wines straight out of cold storage (down to -4°C).
- Blocking fermentation or filtering wines treated with PVPP.
- Closed-tank to closed-tank sparkling wine and cider filtration.
- Racked Dry White Wine: 24 to 120 hl/h (across X-Wine 2 to X-Wine 10 models)
- Dry White and Rosé: 17 to 85 hl/h
- Raw Red Wine: 10 to 50 hl/h
- Thermo Brut Red Wine: 8.5 to 42 hl/h
- Cider: 10 to 50 hl/h
- Membrane Superiority: The bespoke hydrophilic asymmetrical structure prevents deep pore clogging and treats delicate wine structure gently.
- Ultra-Low Environmental Impact: Holds the market record for the lowest water and cleaning product consumption.
- Flawless Quality Preservation: Renowned for rock-solid mechanical reliability while perfectly preserving the wine's colour, structure, and aromatics.
Difficult, highly turbid raw wines or cold-stabilised wines quickly plug standard filters, leading to frequent shutdowns and high water waste.
The X-Wine applies a low-pressure process alongside a 100 µm scale pre-filter grille. This setup achieves highly stable flow rates on tough products, and includes a smart wash-water separation valve to let clear rinse water be saved and recycled for cellar floor cleaning.
Total By-Product Recovery: Flavy X-Treme
- Filtration of thick settling/sedimentation, flotation, and cold stagnation sediments
- Direct filtration of heavy fermentation and fining lees
- Processing juices heavily treated with adjuvants (bentonite, activated carbon, gelatin, PVPP, or pea protein) without operational limits
- Sediments Average Flow Rate: 5 to 25 hl/h (X-Treme 2 to X-Treme 10)
- Fermentation Lees: 5 to 25 hl/h
- Fining Lees: 3.6 to 18 hl/h
- Dry White Wine (Fined & Racked): 12 to 60 hl/h
- Incredible Recovery Rates: Recovers up to 90% of clean juice or wine out of thick sediments and tank bottoms.
- Uninterrupted 20-Hour Runs: Runs up to 20 hours continuously without requiring intermediate rinses, parameter changes, or operator monitoring.
- Integrated DB Pre-filter: Eliminates large pieces of debris (skins, seeds, stalks) before entering the main modules.
Wineries traditionally generate significant waste volume via thick lees and sediments, throwing away profitable wine or incurring high disposal fees/
The X-Treme features a versatile 3-in-1 option. Winemakers can toggle settings right on the touchscreen to filter must, lees, and finished wine with a single machine—no module teardown required. This clean product can be instantly blended back into the wine batches.
Vitis & Winemakers work with wineries throughout Australia and New Zealand to design complete filtration solutions using Bucher Vaslin technology.
Whether the objective is increasing throughput, reducing wine losses, improving bottling security or recovering valuable wine from lees, our team provides:
- Process assessment
- Equipment selection
- Installation and commissioning
- Operator training
- Spare parts support
- Ongoing technical service
From boutique producers through to large commercial wineries, Vitis & Winemakers helps winemakers implement filtration systems that improve efficiency while protecting wine quality.
Looking to improve winery filtration performance, reduce wine losses or upgrade your cellar operations? Contact Vitis & Winemakers to discuss the Bucher Vaslin filtration solution best suited to your winery.