TECNOBARRICAS Operational Group: Increasing the competitiveness of the forest-industrial-wine chain
- Type Operational group
- Status In progress
- Execution 2024 -2026
- Assigned Budget 596.384,00 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Castilla y León; Navarra, Comunidad Foral de; Rioja, La
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2023-2027
National cooperage companies or sawmills will be able to achieve technological leadership in the sector by being able to offer barrels with a controlled oxygenation rate (OTR) and on demand, personalized. Each winemaker will be able to choose, for each type of wine/distillate, the oxygenation rate of the barrel, an aspect that will define the final characteristics of the wine or distillate.
The application of non-destructive technologies for measuring the physical properties that define the Oxygen Transfer Rate (OTR) of wood will have an impact on the business sector and its socioeconomic environment because it will generate new business opportunities for the national cooperage sector through the creation of a new, more technologically advanced "way of doing things" and with the application of digitalization and artificial intelligence technologies for process control, generating a new innovative product in cooperage that will be accessible to the wine sector.
- Analysis of oxygen transfer rates in staves of different oak species (domestic and American) and study of the relationship with their granulometry.
- Anatomical analysis (granulometry) from high-definition RGB images.
- Analysis of the oxygen transfer rate in each stave and study of its relationship with particle size distribution.
- Development and validation of a stave classification algorithm based on their oxygen transfer rate (OTR). Design and development of the hardware for the prototype industrial classification of pre-staves based on their OTR.
- Development of pre-stave classification software based on their OTR using validated algorithms.
- Production of high, medium and low OTR American oak barrels.
- Production of wines from Tempranillo, Garnacha, and Verdejo varietals and aging in high, medium, and low OTR barrels.
- Conduct a profitability study of the stave classification prototype and barrels with a known or defined OTR. Create a marketing and commercialization plan for the innovations.
Regarding the global oak barrel market, according to different reports, it is estimated that it will reach €1.05 billion in 2026 with an annual growth of 5.3% from €770 million in 2020(21). The main market is Europe, followed by the USA, and the market leader is Tonnellerie Francois Freres (TTF) with a market share of around 24%. The main market operators are: TFF, Oeneo, Nadalie, World Cooperage, Bouchared Cooperages, G&P Garbellotto SpA, Canton Cooperage, The Barrel Mill and Kelvin Cooperage.
The development of this project will allow Spanish cooperages to access cutting-edge technology through the application of AI to improve their production processes, offering barrels with greater consistency. This will also allow them to expand their product portfolio from American oak barrels to barrels with known oxygenation potential, which will represent a significant differentiation in the cooperage market. The positioning of Spanish cooperage groups in a groundbreaking technology could be the decisive step toward a qualitative leap forward compared to French and American groups in particular.
This innovation will be passed on to wineries, which in turn will be passed on to consumers, who will be able to access wines with specific profiles. In the spirits sector, the impact of the project's development will be significant due to the importance of wood in most of the products produced. The sector will have the opportunity to develop new products with new profiles to offer rare and exclusive products.
To increase the competitiveness of the wine and forestry sectors by developing technological solutions that optimize the production of barrels with consistent characteristics and a known oxygenation rate.
- Industrial machine (prototype) for in-line sorting of oak pre-staves based on their oxygen transmission rate (OTR) for use in high-capacity cooperages.
- Technological solution for classifying oak pre-staves based on their oxygen transmission rate (OTR) for use in low-capacity cooperages.
- Barrels with known or defined oxygen transmission rate (OTR).
- Wines aged in barrels with specific oxygen transmission rates (OTR) tested.
- Market research and business plan for the innovations developed.
- Name of the coordinator/entity: Foundation for the Center for Services and Promotion of Forestry and its Industry of Castilla y León, CESEFOR
- Postal address: Pol. Industrial las Casas C/c parcela 4
- Coordinator/entity email: gonzalo.caballe@cesefor.com
- Telephone: 975212453
- CESEFOR
- CESEFOR
- INTONA
- TAMESA
- BODEGAS RAMON BILBAO
- AEIM
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