For taste and quality, keeping the air in your wine cellar clean is just as important as ensuring the right humidity and temperature. Sanitation throughout your cellars is key to keeping off-flavors from developing in your product – whether from mold or TCA and cork taint. But, did you know that the airborne mold you don’t see can be just as insidious as the mold colonies that form in the darker, more damp areas of the cellar? Air purification is the last line of defense against mold and TCA in your commercial wine cellar.

Your Wine Loves the Cellar, So Does Mold

The conditions that help your wines maintain their flavor or flourish while they age also happen to be similar to those conditions that mold loves. The right relative humidity can reduce evaporative losses in barrels, and low light and mild temperatures help maintain the delicate balance that a good wine needs. But, humid air encourages mold colonies, and wherever a mold colony starts, shortly after it will start sporing. Additionally, cleaning products and molds can interact with natural phenols present in wood barrels or wine corks, creating the TCA molecule that ruins even the best bottles.

All of this exchange requires a medium – the air carries mold spores from active colonies, even small ones, all over your cellar. Stray spores will have all of the time they need to land and begin the reactions that ruin your wines with corky flavors like newspaper and wet cement.

Stop Mold in its Tracks

Even the cleanest wine cellar can be susceptible to mold growth, but what if you could stop mold spores from ever landing in the first place? Airocide is an air purifier specially equipped to handle mold spores and other unwanted organic molecules – even volatile organic compounds (or VOCs) like TCA. It eliminates these threats from the air without producing harmful emissions, keeping your cellar air clean and safe. The best part? It cleans your air without affecting the delicate balance of temperature, humidity, and low light that your wines need to thrive.

Mold and TCA Protection for Your Cellar

The technology behind Airocide air purification was designed by NASA for use on the space station, and it easily scales to spaces of many sizes. Safe enough to use in an enclosed office, and effective enough to purify the air throughout an entire warehouse – Airocide air purification can be configured to fit the needs of your commercial wine cellar. Get started protecting your products from airborne mold, the off flavors of cork taint from TCA, and much more, reach out to an air purification expert today to learn more.

Preventing black mold is a full-time job when you operate your barrel room or wine cave at the optimal relative humidity for retaining your product. And because wine ages at such a slow rate, barrels aren’t expected to move too much. Cleaning around barrels requires careful precision – and sometimes powerful cleaning chemicals. For some winemakers, chemicals are a non-option – but black mold doesn’t cease being a threat. Airocide presents an elegant, chemical-free solution to control black mold in your cellar, barrel room, or wine cave. You can produce a more natural product, without worry about mold, spoilage bacteria and yeast, or evaporative loss from lower RH. Discover how Airocide protects your product.

Defending Your Winery Against Black Mold

Black mold spreads, like many fungal pathogens, by releasing spores. Black mold can become airborne – and disturbances like changes in air pressure, vibrations, and everyday foot traffic can be enough to send spores flying through the air. It can land on product, and on employees – and as soon as it reaches a suitable organic material it takes hold and grows. For your product, that could mean spoilage – but it also spells danger for employees who could inhale it. Taking control of black mold means eliminating it where it spreads, not just where you find it in your cellar.

The Right Chemical-Free Air Purification

That’s where Airocide can help. As an air purification technology designed to process the air in your facility independently of your HVAC, Airocide continually processes and purifies the air inside your storage areas without disturbing those environmental factors your product depends on as it ages. That means you can operate at the right relative humidity without worrying about providing an environment for fungal spores, spoilage bacteria, and yeast in the air.

Airocide destroys unwanted organic molecules, and it does so without the use of any harsh chemicals or dangerous emissions. That means no peroxides, no ozone, and no volatile organic compounds are produced. Unwanted fungal spores, spoilage bacteria, yeast, and even viruses enter the sealed reaction chamber and are broken down into trace elements of carbon dioxide and water vapor. Not only can this reduce the incidence of infections like black mold, it can also help prevent aging product from developing off flavors.

Proven Effective Against Mold

Just one visit to our customer testimonials will illustrate the positive effect of installing Airocide for airborne mold control. But, for more information on how it can help your winery specifically, we have experts in air purification ready to answer your questions. Reach out today to learn more about zero-emission air purification for your winery, and find out what Airocide can do to help protect your products.

Cold storage warehouses, food processors, grocers, wineries, florists, and more know that time is of the essence when it comes to their product freshness. Timing is everything when cultivating, storing and delivering products for sale. With our Airocide air sanitation system, you can be confident in your products’ quality. We’re here to help you discover how to extend product life and boost your profits with one simple solution: clean air.

Start with What You Can’t See

Most of the threats to your products’ shelf life and vibrancy are too small to be seen. For instance, ethylene gas in storage facilities cause increased ripening and withering of fresh crops. It’s odorless and invisible, but it is devastating to your products. Our Developed for NASA Airocide technology is specifically made to remove ethylene gas and extend product life significantly.

Another unseen but equally troubling threat is that of airborne contaminants. Mold, pathogens, bacteria, fungi, mycotoxins, viruses, allergens and other microbes thrive in closed spaces. You have worked hard to cultivate, harvest, and process your product(s), but now your valuable product is at risk to these airborne threats that can rapidly cause catastrophic damage.

Utilizing a patented Photocatalytic Oxidation (PCO) process, contaminated air is continuously processed through Airocide’s bio-conversion reactor bed. All organic material (bacteria, mold, allergens, viruses, VOC’s such as ethylene gas) mineralizes, leaving the exit air 99.99% contaminant free. No ozone or other toxic chemicals or gas are utilized or produced during this process.

By sanitizing and purifying the air with our Airocide system, this leaves you with a peace of mind, cleaner facility, extended shelf life, and customers with the superior freshness and quality they expect.

If your customers rely on your product to be organic, we can help you keep it that way! Airocide is a purifying solution with NO chemicals, NO emissions, and NO ozone.

Finish with High Quality You Can See

When your product suffers a loss, so do your sales. Grocery stores, restaurants, and others rely on their produce providers to deliver the freshest products for their customers. Furthermore, by offering a superior product, your brand will be seen as highly valuable. This will elevate your brand as well as increase your sales in the marketplace.

A radiant product outshines the mediocre. By keeping your facility’s air purified with our Airocide system, you can be confident in your product to outshine the rest with high-quality freshness and give your brand a trusted identity. Customers are sure to remember and prefer your superior product which will boost your profits just by sanitizing your air!

If you’re ready to extend your product life and boost your profits, we’re ready to help. Contact us to see which Airocide product is best for you.