Production facility

It takes 13 kg of olives to produce 1 litre of extra virgin olive oil. The olives are shaken and raked out of the trees onto the ground which has been covered with large cloths or mats. The olives are put into a cleaning tank where they are washed with water, leaves and other debris separated. Then they go into a crusher, pits and all which blends them into a paste. The resulting paste is put into a centrifuge where the oil is separated from the cake. The cake is used in the orchard as fertilizer. The oil is further purified by centrifuge. The extra virgin olive oil is then stored in stainless steel storage tanks filled with nitrogen so no oxidation takes place. This whole process takes no more than 2 hours.