Olive oil

Olive oil is a fantastic natural product.

Together with wine it belongs to one of the oldest comestibles of the world. It is not only suitable for salad, but also for baking and frying. Moreover, olive oil plays an important roll in natural cosmetics and is contained in high quality lotions and body-care products.
 
Good olive oil does not only taste good, it is also very healthy fort he cardiovascular system since it is rich in unsaturated fatty acids.


Already 30 years ago Flottweg started to replace in Spain the traditional presses for olive oil production by decanters. 

Nowadays decanters and disc stack centrifuges are generally used for olive oil production, apart from a few small companies. A modern olive mill can process up to 500 – 1000 tons of olives per day, this quantity would be impossible using presses. Flottweg Decanters can be found in all countries where olive oil is produced, as e.g. in Spain, Italy, Greece, North Africa, Turkey, Syria and Australia. Even Chinese people appreciate the good taste of olive oil and therefore, during the last years, they planted olive trees and installed a Flottweg olive oil plant in China.