The processing cycle to obtain olive oil can be summarized in 6 essential phases: harvesting, washing, pressing, kneading, centrifugation, storage and bottling.

1. The olives, initially transported in special polyethylene containers, are poured into the hopper from which, with a special conveyor belt, they pass within the range of action of the defoliator which eliminates leaves and twigs.

2. Subsequently in the washing tank the olives are washed and then dried by draining the water.

3. Milling is the first real phase of oil extraction. Through a second belt, the washed olives are first crushed by granite millstones and subsequently the paste obtained is properly crushed, with a regular particle size, by a mechanical crusher.

4. The next phase is the kneading of the paste obtained, the purpose of which is to aggregate the micro-drops of oil present in the paste through continuous mixing at a temperature between 20 and 27 °C, for a time not exceeding 60 minutes.

5. Once this is finished, the paste passes through a horizontal centrifuge, called a decanter, which, through the rotating action of the drum, separates 3 phases from the paste: the virgin olive pomace, which is sent to the pomace factory for transformation into pomace oil and fuel, the vegetation water which is used as agricultural fertilizer and the oily must. The latter is sent to a vertical centrifugal separator which, through rotation, separates the oil from the solid residues still present.

6. The oil thus obtained can then be stored in food-grade stainless steel silos with a nitrogen system, suitably placed in an air-conditioned room in order to preserve the organoleptic and chemical characteristics of the product just obtained.

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