Campinas to have technological beverage center
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Campinas will become a technological center for the productive chain of wine and distilled beverages, with the opening of the Beverage Analysis Laboratory, foreseen for the first half of 2010. The president of the Fiesp (Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo), Paulo Skaf, said the investment amounts to R$ 4.1 million (US$ 2.2 million) in works and equipment, with funds of the Senai (National Service for Industrial Training) of São Paulo.
With 200 square meters of the Senai School Prof. Dr. Euryclides Jesus Zerbini, in the neighborhood of Saudade, the laboratory will be intended for the rendering of services for the manufacturers of wine and cachaça. "The laboratory will be essential for the evolution of the wine sector in several aspects, standing out, mainly, as a new tool in the indication of quality indexes throughout the productive process of the wine", said Skaf. "That will allow the producers to meet the legal demands established by the inspection and control entities for the excellence of their products."
The Brazilian market currently consumes nearly 380 million liters of wine, 80% of which of table wine (300 million liters) and 20% of fine wines (80 million liters). São Paulo, according to Skaf, is responsible for the consumption of nearly 50% of this market. The São Paulo wine industry is responsible for the bottling of 75 million liters produced in Rio Grande do Sul - that is, 25% of the production of Rio Grande do Sul "is exported" in liquid bulk to the São Paulo industry. Nearly 20 wine industries of São Paulo depend, almost entirely (95%) on the importation of grapes and bulk wine from other states of the South.