For a fee, Aceites Molisur, in Alhaurín el Grande, will press the olives of anyone who asks in order to produce the oil, in a process known in Spanish as ‘maquila’. They have been doing this for the past 15 years and the only stipulation is that due to the requirements of the machinery they use, you must bring at least 550 kilos of olives. The oil is ready to take home in 2 hours.
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Although nothing new, this practice has enjoyed a surge in popularity since the boom in construction came to an end and many families have returned to harvesting their own olives for financial reasons. The firm currently employs 25 people and has 5,000 clients from 50 different towns and villages in Málaga province and elsewhere in Andalucía, and presses about 3 million kilos of olives a year. Their equipment can process the olives of 8 different customers every 15 minutes and operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When they have finished producing their customers’ oil, they start on their own.
Olive oil production has started earlier this year due to the recent drought conditions.
Molisur is currently investing 2.5 million euros on new premises to include a new mill, which it says will increase production to half a million litres a year. The expansion will also include olive oil tasting classes, an information centre and a ‘world garden’ which will contain over 200 varieties of olive trees from several different countries and will include trees which are 100 years old. This will be unique in the province.
It was awarded the best green fruity extra virgin olive oil of the 2016-2017 harvest by the Málaga provincial government, and the Italian firm Pieralisi, a world leader in manufacturing olive oil equipment, also awarded the company a prize at the Expoliva exhibition earlier this year.
