PUMP CASE STUDY Castoro Cellars Templeton, California New Pump System CUSTOMER APPLICATION AND KEY CHALLENGES Castoro Cellars began as a small family venture producing a few barrels of wine for family and friends, but over the last two decades has added staff, equipment, facilities and vineyards to blossom into a custom crush operation producing about 60,000 cases of wine per year. One of the problem areas for the winery processing has been their MUST Pump. MUST consists of the skins, seeds and juice of freshly crushed and destemmed grapes. Sitting below the crusher/ destemmer the MUST pump transfers product to the fementation tanks or presses. The metal rotary lobe pumps being used by the winery were consistently getting jammed and required the entire line to stop while

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