page_title: Chalvignac Group
section_title: Distillation
hierarchical_section_title: Chalvignac Group / Know-hows / Boilermaking / Distillation
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Alambic de type "charentais" fabriqué par Chalvignac Prulho Distillation English: Large "charentais" type alembic for distilling spirits, manufactured by Chalvignac Prulho Distillation
context_page_description: The Chalvignac Group is an international industrial company. Its headquarters is located in Jarnac-Champagne, Charente-Maritime, France. Global specialist of distillation processes, this group is also proposing agricultural and wine-growing trailers, stainless steel/fiber tanks and has recently extended its activity to the winery equipment retailing. Created in the early 20th century, the main company Chalvignac became the center of the Nov-Tech group in 1984, to be renamed recently as the Chalvignac Group.
context_section_description: Chalvignac’s core business is the pot still manufacturing. This apparatus is necessary for cognac’s distillation, emblematic spirit of the area where is implemented the subsidiary in charge of pot stills conception and manufacturing: Chalvignac Prulho Distillation. Its flagship product is the traditional “charentais” pot still, enabling to distil not only cognac, but also calvados, Armagnac, rum, tequila, whiskey and other brandies. Furthermore, Chalvignac Prulho Distillation manufactures distillation columns to obtain mainly Armagnac and single distilled alcohols in continuous production. Alongside this traditional activity, Chalvignac designs and produces high-technology automatisms, to set and supervise the distillation process: gas/steam supply setting and distillate’s casting (heads, brouillis/hearts and tails) and temperature regulation by water cooling.
  Among its clients are prestigious cognac brands as Hennessy, Martell, Courvoisier…
caption: Charentais pot still manufactured by Chalvignac Prulho Distillation
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