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This kit, developed in collaboration with the Agricultural Engineering research group of the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences (DiSAFA) at the University of Turin, is intended for use with existing vineyard and orchard sprayers.

The kit consists of a dual-technology sensor to be installed at the front of the tractor, a control unit and a series of solenoid valves activating the individual nozzles.

The amount of spray output is regulated by electronically varying the opening and closing times, which alternate every tenth of a second, thanks to the PWM system..

The PWM system operates at a fixed pressure, which can be adjusted to obtain the desired droplet size from the nozzles, ensuring the best possible effectiveness of the dispensed product.

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Our kit aligns with the direction indicated by the EU for the 2030 Agenda on the sustainability of food production.

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We are proud to announce our InNoVaR Retrofit Kit has been shortlisted for a major international award.

We are among the nominees for the INNOVATION AWARDS at the SITEVI fair in Montpellier. As with the Oscars, the winners will be revealed at the event’s gala dinner on 25 November.

Our retrofit kit, which convert conventional sprayers from fixed to variable dosage, integrates a dual-technology sensor that estimates the presence and volume of vegetation in different areas of the canopy. This sensor, automatically control individual nozzles, spraying, in proportion to the canopy’s leaf volume.

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CP 180 at work

The dose of fertilizer to be delivered can be programmed from the CSS 220 console.

The CP fertilizer spreader is a machine suitable for fertilizing vineyards proportionally to the travelling speed and optionally, on a variable rate basis.


Dose delivery consistency is guaranteed by an automatic fertilizer dispensing control system.

An outstandingly accurate rev counter

The fertilizer product (which must be granular or in pellets) is conveyed through rotary distributors where a well-identified amount of fertilizer is loaded into each cell. The controlled rotation speed of these distributors leads to efficient instantaneous flow delivery regardless of the speed of the tractor and of the amount of fertilizer in the hopper. The electronic rev counter allows the actual machine delivery to be instantly monitored.

Hydraulic supply must come from the tractor at a constant hydraulic flow rate of at least 20 l/min.
If the desired dose in Kg/ha and the working width (data entered by the operator), the travelling speed and the rotation speed of the distributors (detected by the sensors), and the amount of fertilizer dispensed by the distributors at each revolution (obtained through the calibration procedure) are known, the on-board electronics will deliver the correct voltage to the proportional solenoid valve to adjust the rotation of the distributors so as to dispense the desired quantity of fertilizer. Operating this machine is very straightforward via a three-position lever control.

All that the tractor driver needs to operate this machine

The operator can increase or decrease the prescribed quantity at will while the fertilizer spreader is running, by just pressing the + or – buttons on the control console.

TECHNOLOGY 4.0
The fertilizer spreader can be equipped with a 4.0 module which allows fertilizer dose delivery to be controlled directly from the company computer system, and reports on the work actually carried out, course tracking and work time information to be received. These features are completed by a remote troubleshooting service.

USE WITH VARIABLE DOSES – VRT
This feature is based on precision agriculture requirements, according to which plots of land should not be treated homogeneously but on the basis of specific needs in the different portions of each plot.
The fertilizer spreader is therefore set up to have an optional control system which, during operation, compares its geographical position with the prescription map and indicates the instant dose to be applied to the on-board controller.

The optional console to which the prescription maps of the fertilizer to be spread must be uploaded

If the tractor is equipped with ISOBUS technology, electronic specifications by the DICKEY-john manufacturer can be installed.

This machine is named after Claudio Pontremolesi, a genuine, unforgettable friend, general manager of Antinori Agricola and unwavering supporter of this then futuristic project.

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• Canopy tracking, approaching and withdrawing speed to/from the bunches and amount of leaves to be removed are customisable. The only machine able to compete with manual processing – as it can be used even when the grapes are ripe.

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Wide working time window

• From the earliest stages to just days before harvesting, the machine will ensure outstanding performance in terms of homogeneous work and gentle handling of the grapes.

Eyelid sensor

• Communicates the exact roller distance from the canopy to the on-board computer.

Leaf stripping rollers

• Their shape and size have been specially designed to remove leaves in amounts proportional to their rotation speed.

Leaf stripping parameters

• In just a few seconds all the machine working parameters can be adjusted. Use the + and – buttons to adjust the leaf stripping power even during work.

Motor-driven rotation fifth wheel

• Smooth, precise right-left rotation, jolt-free on changing gradients. It also accurately adjusts the working head angle with respect to the canopy.

Safety limit switch

• Avoids excessive and unnecessary tilting of the machine.

Leaf stripping rollers reverser

• Ours is the first machine equipped with a button for reversing the direction of rotation to eject waste..

Inlet oil filter

• Guarantees maximum reliability by removing any impurities.

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“Technical Innovation” Award at EIMA (International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition) in Bologna, Italy

• At the most important contest of technical innovations for agriculture held in Italy, the manufacturer TECNOVICT, based in Pianello Val Tidone (Piacenza), was awarded a prize (its seventh!) for its machine designed to pick and store grapevine leaves – then sold as a by-product to the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry.

• Special compounds that can be obtained from by-products of the wine industry have become increasingly popular in recent years. There has been a greater focus on research for a more efficient use of these by-products. Various bioactive compounds can be found in spent grape marc and grape seeds. More generally, the value of wine waste can be enhanced by following different strategies, thanks to its chemical characteristics and the presence of a large variety of high added value compounds.
  
  Among the most interesting active ingredients are anthocyanidins; these give wine its colour, astringency, bitterness and partly taste, too. Phenols also play an important role during wine aging. Anthocyanidins are the only cationic group among flavonoids; this makes them unique for their chemical characteristics.

• Anthocyanin is in fact anthocyanidin bound to a sugar. We always refer to anthocyanins and not anthocyanidins, because these are the molecules found in wine. Anthocyanins are known to be responsible for the wide range of colours (from red to yellow) of flowers, fruits and leaves.
  If the extraction of anthocyanins from biomass resulting from wine making would be theoretically possible, in actual fact, these substances would have been degraded by the alcoholic fermentation process they have gone through. Consequently, pure anthocyanins are more effectively extractable from vitis vinifera leaves, especially when their concentration is at its peak, at the end of their production cycle, immediately after the grape harvest.

Final consideration

• Tecnovict was the first in the world to manufacture equipment for picking and recovering grapevine leaves. Financially, this has a huge impact as up to 10 tonnes, the machine manages to reduce harvesting costs by over 50% and its use would already be cost-efficient from about 4 tonnes upwards.
  Probably the most efficient leaf picking technique would be to use the machine for removing the outer leaves and human resources to remove the inner ones.
  This design is yet more proof that agriculture can find new outlets in unexpected applications: in this case, grape leaves picked after grape harvest for use in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry as a high-value by-product of one of our most noble and ancient crops.
  Another major achievement for a small-sized company that has turned its focus on research and innovation into a success story – winning this coveted prize for the seventh time, and the sixth in a row: a truly record-breaking result.

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• Climate change requires canopy management based on fewer trimmings and it is essential to obtain a clean and precise cut that minimises the risk of pathogen infections, and particularly of the esca disease. Our cutting system, based on the tooth-blade technology with guillotine cutting, helps to achieve this goal. It enables better forward speeds than the traditional twin-blade systems and combines zero maintenance requirements, sturdy construction and user friendliness thanks to the use of high quality materials and components. The same cutting technology is also available on tunnel and right/left sided models.

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Cutting blades

• Guillotine tooth/blade system with bolt-on cutting section for quick maintenance.

Safety against impacts

• The cutting bars are protected from impacts against the ground by efficient gas springs..

Electro-hydraulic controls

• Blocks made to our technical specifications using HydraForce US solenoid valves. A unique monobloc system carries out the filtration of the incoming oil, blocking any impurities. The control joystick

Versatility – allowing use with every vine training system

• Wide hydraulic inclination and horizontal and vertical linear shifting potential. Possibility of mechanically moving the position of the cutting devices to the edge of the frame.

Anti-seize system

• All the frame sliding movements are based on anti-friction systems that are easy to adjust and maintain, consisting of special silicon steel plates and adjustable and greasable bronze blocks.

Conveyor for falling shoots

• Designed to reach the shoots that are near the piles and convey them safely into the cutting parts, this machine is the preferred choice for non-trellised vegetation training.

Topping

• Top canopy cutting is ensured by a 0.86 m topping device with hydraulic tilting for lifting and re-insertion system with gas spring in the event of accidental impact against piles

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The sacred respect towards the bunches of nebbiolo destined for these expensive wines has always made us opt for late puffing carried out strictly by hand, but the proverbial delicacy of our machine has ended up unhinging this dogma: respect for the fruit comparable only to that of the hands. has been able to combine the ability to carry out this operation with enormous timeliness.

In light of today’s climate changes, which are often sudden, and careful management of the vineyard, it is essential to have the possibility to react promptly with cutting-edge tools such as this.

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Hydraulic machine with high quality “SCH Schumacher” tooth blade system. It can boast great safety in compared to circular saw systems. Its simplicity and constructive robustness make it economical to purchase and manage. The cutting system allows to cut very hard branches with great cutting quality up to diameters of about 3.5 centimeters as well as to clearly split even very small branches. Available in versions for apple orchard but easily adaptable to other tree cultivations carried out in rows. The electro-hydraulic controls with joysticks are available as optionals (mandatory for tractors) and the hydraulic control unit mounted on the lift.

For systems with anti-hail nets it is possible to mount a topping with two hydraulic movements.

Technical features:

Vertical cutting bar: from 2.45 to 3.00 m.
Horizontal cutting bar: from 0.86 to 1.65 m.
Max cutting diameter: cm. 3.5
Required hydraulic flow rate: 20 to 45 l / min
Weight: 180Kg.
Height shift: 800 mm.
Lateral displacement: 500 mm.
Transverse inclination compared to advancement: +/- 25 °.
Electro-hydraulic controls: optional

Topping with two hydraulic movements for systems with anti-hail nets

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The Vine leaf stripper 111AA is the first tractor-mounted vineyard machine to be implemented by a remote connection module in both Wi-Fi and GPRS technology. It can communicate with the company Wi-Fi network or with a smartphone, being within the range, it can communicate, by means of data telephony in the GSM network, the diagnostics of the electronic parts of the machine to the service center and send the work reports of the equipment at the company server.

The innovation therefore consists in this additional module called “HELP” which can be mounted as an upgrade to existing machines. Inside there is a GPS receiver that has the task of detecting the position and speed of the tractor.

Winner of the award “Mention” at EIMA International 2018

The practical advantages deriving from the two technologies are therefore:

1. Use of an smartphone to check the machine’s macroscopic working parameters on the ground around the machine (within about thirty meters depending on the equipment used) (number of revolving roller rpm, proportional opening of the valve that regulates the aforementioned) roller, tractor speed, and in another page the current absorptions of all the solenoid valves, the correct functioning of sensors and actuators. This feature is designed for technical assistance centers to quickly monitor parameters without having to connect to a tester or a portable PC.
2. Download all reports of the work done daily on the return to the company center where there is a Wi-Fi network. The data to be recorded with the leaf stripper are: punctiform path with relative date, hour, tractor speed and roll rotation speed information.
3. Ability to send the same traceability data of the work performed to the company computer system with frequency to be determined with an integrated GPRS module, thus having the possibility to identify the machine and its work in real time, in an alternative way to data download with Wi- Fi at the end of the day.
4. In case of suspected or obvious anomalies, the tractor driver, by pressing the green HELP key will automatically send the machine operating parameters data to the central technical assistance service of TECNOVICT or to a local distributor who can establish a telephone contact and provide a service remote diagnostic assistance, particularly useful for small anomalies that can be resolved without the intervention of qualified technicians or in any case allowing the intervention of the same on the spot having already identified the source of the problems.

“Help” Module

It does not appear that there are other examples in the world of the production of equipment (excluding tractors) of such an appliance with interactive functionality, which allows on the one hand to help the operator in his activity in case of doubts on the functioning or obvious anomalies, on the other to provide remote control of working parameters to the company center.

Meets the requirements of the “Agriculture 4.0″ directive.

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Functional verification report from Turin’s National Research Center (italian version)

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This vineyard trimmer is the doubled version of our 180 model and preveserves the many advantages introduced: lower control of movements, high visibility in the front of the tractor, great working speed.

With this machine you are able to trim contemporarily both right and left side of the row with a perfect control of the situation.

Technical Features

Cutting bars work width: from 1,70 to 2,70 m
Hydraulic movements: 6 + topping
Cutting bars vertical height: 1,65 (five blades) or 1,95 m. (six blades)
Topping: 0,72 m. (two blades) right side standard, left side optional.
Standard features:

• Horizontal hydraulic movement independent  500 mm. left and right side
• Vertical hydraulic independent movement 500 mm. left and right side
• Hydraulic tilt +/- 20° left and right side
• Electro-hydraulic controls with joystick
• Safety device for impact against the ground with gas spring return
• Garaging stand
• Accessories

For this machine, the following accessories are available:

Topping: allows the cut in the top of the canopy area, and is equipped with a hydraulic actuator operated by joystick for its vertical lifting in the case are present obstacles. It has two knives to a useful area of 70 cm cutting. It can be ordered for right-side only or also for the left.

Conveyor for falling shoots: moves the vegetation from the lower area next to the poles line to the rows bringing it to intercept the cutting parts.

Hydraulic central: It avoids overheating of the tractor and put the machines in the condition to work in hydraulic flow rates, temperatures and pressures ideals. Extremely recommended with all rotary machines fast blades.

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