Separator's Digest - GEA Westfalia Separator Group

New Olive Oil Extraction Installat
in Australia
AustrAlIA‘s OlIvE OIl busINEss Is stIll vEry rEcENt.
ApprOxImAtEly 20,000 hA ArE plANtEd wIth OlIvE
trEEs, ANd mOrE thAN 18,000 hA Of thIs fIgurE
hAvE ONly bEEN plANtEd durINg thE pAst
tEN yEArs.
In spring 2008 Tatiara
Olive Processing, one of
the five biggest Australian
olive oil producers,
commissioned an olive oil
extraction plant with an
OSD 50 oil polisher.
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Separator’s Digest 3 | 2008
GEA Westfalia Separator Process
Around one third of the olive plantations has
fewer than 500 trees, and 90 percent of the
plantations overall comprise no more than
5000 trees. the plantations are scattered
throughout the southern part of Australia. In
terms of climate conditions, these regions are
roughly equivalent to spain and greece. the
production quantity of olive oil was approx.
2800 tonnes in 2006, and approximately
3500 tonnes of table olives were produced.
Australia currently covers 95 percent of its
olive oil and table olives requirement by
means of imports.
Difficult years
recent years have been extremely difficult
for the Australian olive producers. In 2004, a
severe drought and major restrictions in terms
of irrigation rights meant that the harvest
was much lower than originally anticipated.