inside a traditional italian olive pomace oil mill in Sri Lanka
In modern mills or olive oil mills the process is fully mechanized. Traditional: Now practically extinct, which consists of crushing the olives with a large stone wheel (the so-called
The mill we visited in Monopoli, south Italy, produces around 800 litres per day of extra virgin olive oil, crushing about 5,000 kg of olives. Harvested olives enter the mill on a
