CASE
study
KRONE (Australia) Holdings Pty Limited
2 Hereford Street Berkeley Vale NSW 2261
PO Box 335 Wyong NSW 2259
Phone: 02 4389 5000
Fax: 02 4388 4499
Help Desk: 1800 801 298
Email:
Web: www.krone.com.au
6069 05/03
A Vintage Solution for Southcorp
Southcorp Limited and Rosemount Estates merged
to form the world's largest premium branded wine
company, Southcorp Wines.
The combination of Rosemount with Penfolds and
Lindemans brought together three of the world's
premier global wine brands, creating one of the
largest wine companies in the world with export
markets in 80 countries.
In its first year of operation, Southcorp Wines has
more than 7,500 hectares of vineyards under
production in the winemaking regions of the
Barossa and Clare Valleys in South Australia, the
Sunraysia region of Victoria and the Hunter,
Mudgee and Orange districts of New South Wales.
It delivers more than 10 million cases of premium
wines for estimated revenue of more than AUD$1.1
billion.
At the time of the merger, Rick Allert,
Southcorp's Chairman, said: "Rosemount is an

and our main distribution centre at Outer Harbour
in Adelaide."
Southcorp Wines' new International Distribution
Centre is located at OuterHarbour. The 30,000
square m site dovetails with the adjacent Mackenzie
transport Centre which handles Southcorp's
container packaging.
"As well as being integrated for the smooth and
climate-controlled transfer of wines in containers,
the communications network for the two centres is
also connected by a KRONE Premis
NET
structured
fibre optic system," said Mr Moult-Smith.
From Left to Right: Gary Tennant - Installations Supervisor,
Fibre and Data Networks; Neil Martin - Communications
Co-ordinator (Central & Western Region) Southcorp; John
McEwen - SA Sales Executive, KRONE Australia, Taking a
closer look at the KRONE Installation
CASE
study
KRONE (Australia) Holdings Pty Limited
2 Hereford Street Berkeley Vale NSW 2261
PO Box 335 Wyong NSW 2259
Phone: 02 4389 5000
Fax: 02 4388 4499
Help Desk: 1800 801 298
Email:
Web: www.krone.com.au
6069 05/03

production.
"KRONE is virtually the industry standard for
structured cabling solutions which is important to
us because our organisation is widespread," said
Mr Martin. "Some of our sites are in the middle of
nowhere but you can always count on one local
Telstra technician to have a KRONE tool in his back
pocket to provide support to the equipment.
KRONE is also a local manufacturer which is
important when it comes to surety of supply."
Graham Whitfield is located in the Sunraysia region
of Victoria at Karadoc near Mildura. As Electrical
Supervisor, he is responsible for the automation and
control of the Karadoc site.
"Karadoc was the old Lindeman's site," said
Mr Whitfield. "This year we'll be crushing
between 50,000 and 60,000 tonnes of
grapes and producing all the cask products
for the group as well as some bottled lines.
"We have 150 people using our network and
our staff numbers swell to 250 during the
vintage. We use a Telstra OnRamp service and
KRONE Premis
NET
Cat 5e as well as KRONE
fibre patch panels.
"Like Nurioopta, Karadoc also runs a SCADA
system through a fibre optic programmable logic
control (PLC) network.
"Our SCADA system controls tank temperature