Olivarera Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

Olivarera Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe is in the Cordoba town of Baena, it has 11 olive reception lines; where each has a reception hopper, two belts for conveying the fruit to the cleaner, a cleaner for separating the olive from the leaf and the earth (which varies depending on the date), a washing machine, a belt for conveying the fruit to the weigher, a weigher and a conveyor belt to the storage hoppers.

As the end of this first process, once the olive is selected and cleaned, it is stored in 24 storage hoppers. All of these hoppers together have a capacity for 1,200,000 kg/day of olives; all of these olives are ground within 24 hours of being received. Thus Olivarera Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe has 4 grinding lines and each line has 2 hammers, making a total of 8 hammers that each grind 8,000 kg of olives an hour.

At Olivarera Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, once the olive has been ground (crushed), the paste goes to the beaters and, from the beaters, to the separator and, from these, to the vertical centrifuges, which a first and second extraction is performed according to the type of Extra Virgin Olive Oil (AOVE); finally, they go to the cellars and, subsequently, to the packaging plant, if required.