Cooperativa Nuestra Señora del Pilar
Description
The new mill is built on a plot of 160,000 m ² located on the outskirts of the municipality, including a factory with 12 production lines and more than 11,000 m ², four industrial ships, several wineries and a social building of 2 floors, with 1,800 m built.
The project has involved the movement of 145,000 m ³ of land and the use of 1,200 pilotes in diameter of 45 cm. At 85 cm. And from 14 to 18 m deep; 15,000 m ³ of concrete; 1,215,000 kg. Of steel in structure; 35,000 m ² in deck and panal plates; and 6,151 m of drainage pipes for tributary driving. The land also required the lifting of a containment wall to avoid landslides. There have also been 500 trees planted.
Making the olive trees of our partners productive, with strict controls in the systems of labour, nutrition and plant health, being as respectful as possible to the environment, ensuring the natural quality of our product is one of our objectives.
In the Agrarian Cooperative Ntra Sra. del Pilar we have for 2010 1669 active partners, an extension of 13,939.33 hectares of olive trees with 1,513,232 olive trees and an average production over the last 10 years of more than 61,000,000 kg of olive and 13,000,000 kg of oil, with the marketing year 2,003 / 2,004, with a production of 84,538,339 kg of olive and 17,829,721 kg. Oil, the record harvest.
We understand that the quality begins in the field and after a careful cultivation the fruits are collected, made according to the degree of maturity in each site, selecting and separating the olives from the trees from the falls to the ground, transporting them in a perfect state for processing in the modern facilities we possess.