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April 2010 |
Ros Casares RRE MedioAmbiental S.L. and Cavitus Pty. Ltd. executed an exclusive distribution agreement for Iberia for Cavitus' proprietary High Power Ultrasonics (or 'HPU') systems solutions, starting with Cavitus' revolutionary BCDS, a wine barrel sanitation solution for simultaneous cleaning and disinfection. Please click the PDF icon to download the Press Release.
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November 2009 |
Cavitus announces successful customer trials with its pat. pend. HPU extraction solution for grains and seeds in North America and Europe, taking its HPU extraction application beyond grape must and the wine industry into Agri-Foods.
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Cavitus demonstrates its mobile barrel cleaner, mBCDS, with first contractor/partner, Wine Barrel Cleaning Services, to Barossa Valley winemakers at Langmeil Winery, South Australia, on 29 October, 2009 (see photo), and is actively seeking interested parties to enter exclusive agreements world-wide to sell mobile services to wineries and coopers using Cavitus' proprietary barrel cleaning and disinfection capabilities. For more information please contact us on +61 (0) 409 811 826.
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October 2009 |
ANZWIJ published an article detailing further studies undertaken by Cavitus and the wine industry on the use of HPU for enhanced barrel cleaning, microbial disinfection and oak compound diffusion into wine. Click here to download the article
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September 2009 |
Cavitus will exhibit at Drinktec 2009, the world fair for beverage and liquid food technology, in Munich Germany from September 14 - 19. Come and visit us at stand 442, in hall A2.
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June 2009 |
Andrew Yap gave a presentation at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Enology and Viticulture in Napa, CA.
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Cavitus exhibits at Institute of Food Technology trade show in Anaheim, CA, where Dr. Darren Bates' presentation in the "Novel Technologies for the Food and Beverage Industry" workshop series was well received.
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May 2009 |
Cavitus announces it will exhibit at IFT, in Anaheim, CA, USA, on June 6-9 2009. IFT is one of the world's largest conventions and trade fairs for food technology.
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April 2009 |
Cavitus is awarded a Climate Ready grant from the Commonwealth Government for funding both its pat. pend. high power ultrasonic grape color and flavor extraction improvement system and its pat. pend. high power ultrasonic fermentation enhancement system. These solutions are designed to reduce capital costs for production processes in the industry and to reduce energy and water usage.
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January 2009 |
Cavitus displayed its technology at the Unified Grape & Wine Symposium in Sacramento, California. Hosted by the American Society for Enology and Viticulture and the California Association of Winegrape Growers, this annual event is the largest wine and grape show in the US and attracted 14,000 visitors from all over the world. As one of the wine industry?s premier gatherings, the Unified Symposium represents a vital platform to focus on the issues shaping today, while interfacing the topics and trends shaping the future of grapegrowing and winemaking.
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Cavitus has concluded the first close of its current
equity funding by raising capital from exisiting shareholders. Funds will be used to gain early sales of proprietary solutions for the wine industry, expand its presence in foam management with its licensed UDS system, continue to enhance its patents in high power ultrasound applications for the F&B industry and hire key staff to support the Company's expansion plans in key international markets.
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Cavitus announces it has signed an exclusive, global distribution agreement to sell and service Pusonics SL's patented Ultrasonics Defoaming System for packaging lines and production vessels in the food and beverage industry. Cavitus estimates that the opportunity to reduce foam as a bottleneck in the F&B industry is a US $1 Billion market. Please click the PDF icon to download the Press Release.
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November 2008 |
Cavitus announces it will exhibit at Anuga FoodTec, in Cologne, Germany on March 10-13 2009. Anuga FoodTec is one of the world's most important trade fairs for food and drink technology. Held once every three years, the 2006 exhibition featured 1,172 exhibitors from 43 countries, and 39,000 trade visitors from 151 countries.
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Cavitus announces it will exhibit at the at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento, CA, USA, on
January 28th & 29th, and provide demonstrations of its barrel cleaning and disinfection solution for selected visitors.
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October 2008 |
Cavitus publishes the paper "Inactivation of Brettanomyces/Dekkera in wine barrels by high power ultrasound" in the Australian and New Zealand Wine Industry Journal. Please see the publications page to download.
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The principal from a well-regarded internet blog for the winemaking community, http://www.reignofterroir.com/, has described BWDD as "...the best invention and innovation that has hit the wine industry for a long time".
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July 2008 |
The article "An Update on Ultrasonics" is published in Food Technology Magazine. Please click on the PDF icon to download the article.
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April 2008 |
Bill Wright, Cavitus CFO, attends Ausindustry showcase event in Adelaide, to receive the $250,000 Commercial Ready Plus grant. Please see the
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Cavitus was invited to speak at the WEA (Winery Engineering Association) Conference in June. |
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January 2008 |
Cavitus displayed its technology at the Unified Grape & Wine Symposium in Sacramento, California. Hosted by the American Society for En
ology and Viticulture and the California Association of Winegrape Growers, this annual event is the largest wine and grape show in the US and included a trade show and a broad spectrum of seminars. |
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November 2007 |
Cavitus A series funding round has successfully closed, over-subscribed. Welcome to new investors Terra Rossa Capital, and RimLight LLC. |
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August 2007 |
"High power investment from Playford Capital" The Australian and New Zealand Wine Industry Journal, July/August 2007, Volume 22 (4). "High power ultrasonics as a novel tool offering new opportunities for managing wine microbiology" - manuscript has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in next issue of the internation
al journal Biotechnology Letters. Download available from the publications page. |
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Examples of Cavitus' collaboration on new HPU applications were presented by Cargill at it presentation on commercializing new technologies in
Chicago at IFT, one of the world's largest trade fairs and industry conferences for the F&B industry. | |
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July 2007 |
"Ultrasonic answer to preserve flavour" The Advertiser (Adelaide), 31 July 2007. | |
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Cavitus moves into its R&D and Operations facility within Uni SA at Mawson Lakes. Please see Contact Us f
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June 2007 |
Cavitus closes its first external equity investment round, enabling the funding of certain research, IP protection, product development, recru
iting, and business development activities. Investors include institutions Playford Capital and ITEK (UniSA), as well as retired executives from the F&B sector, e.g., Altria (Kraft, Miller Brewing) an
d Sara Lee (Moccona, Douwe Egberts), as well as the wine industry, such as Lindemans, Southcorp and E&J Gallo.
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May 2007 |
In conjunction with University of South Australia and The University of Adelaide, Cavitus is awarded a 3-year Australian Research Council Link
age grant for investigation of High Power Ultrasonics applications in wine-making, particularly related to extraction, and barrel cleaning and disinfection. |
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April 2007 |
Dr. Bates will present on the use of Ultrasonics in food processing at a forthcoming workshop, "Nonthermal Processing Technologies - Criteria
for Commercialization Success", July 27-28, 2007, at the Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, preceeding the 2007 International Food Technology (IFT) conference. One of the world's foremost annual food t
echnology events, IFT focuses on the latest science, trends and product developments in the food industry and is visited by more than 23,000 food science industry professionals from around the world.
For more information please see http://www.am-fe.ift.org. |
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Provisor, the premier national research consortium providing facilities, equipment and services for research into variables affecting wine qu
ality, style and price throughout the value chain, has invited Cavitus to present at its workshop on "Process Improvements for Profitability" during The 13th Australian Wine Industry Technical Confe
rence (AWITC) in July. Cavitus' presentation will focus on the application of high power ultrasonics to clean and disinfect barrels and planks. The triennial AWITC is the biggest wine technical con
ference in the Southern Hemisphere, attracting more than 1700 researchers, winemakers and viticulturists from all over the world.
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November 2006 |
UniSA and Cavitus jointly submit final application for the South Australian 'Premier's Science and Technology Fund' grant to support the star
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July 2006 |
Cavitus technical founders, Darren Bates, Andrew Yap and Richard McLoughlin, honoured in adjunct Research Fellow roles by University of South
Australia for their expertise and forthcoming contributions to the investigation of high power ultrasonics as a key technology for the next decade. |
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May 2006 |
Cavitus and University of South Australia sign MOU to collaborate on setting-up the High Power Ultrasonics Alliance at the Mawson Lakes campus,
in Adelaide. The Alliance will act as the hub for applied research on HPU in South Australia and will initially focus on wine, food and beverage, and extraction industry projects. |
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