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<pre>Hello.

My name is Stefano SALVATRE, an Italian industrial engineer, owner with other
partners of NOVUS s.r.l., an italian company who designs and produces OLIVIA -
the mini oil mill. Novus s.r.l. is a young and dynamic firm which has been
founded by two young entrepreneurs in order to realize, develop and promote
innovative products in the ecological and biological agriculture fields. Mainly,
Novus works in the water treatment field (www.novuscd.it in italian). Besides,
already for some years, it carries out experimentations in the high quality
olive oil production field, for small producers. The mini oil mill OLIVIA® has
been created by these experimentations and it has been presented some fair (also
Vinitaly '99 - Verona - Italy, where some of you met us). The traditional
systems to produce oil are conceived to work big quantities of olives and they
have not reasonable prices for small producers.
Now Novus puts at everyone’s disposal a new extraction technology for the
production of high quality olive oil which uses an old system, called DARB-ELMÈ
(of north African origin) which is based on the oil extraction from the olive
pastes using water. The extraction process (patented) of OLIVIA® foresees a
cold-working without any increase in temperature in the production phases in
order to safeguard the extracted oil quality. Besides, to exalt the olive
properties, OLIVIA® lets the oil extraction without crushing the stone, so
without a violent crush of the olive like in the known traditional systems, and
it reduces the mechanical and thermic actions which are responsible for the
paste degradation. OLIVIA® is almost entirely in stainless steel and alimentary
plastic for a quick and total cleaning. OLIVIA® works small quantities of olives
reducing the degree of acidity and the loss of their important characteristics,
as there aren’t any olives in stock: so your olive oil will be more fragrant and
light.

You can find more information on:
www.olivia.it (italian, english and spanish)
If you need more info, mail to OliveOil mailing list.

NOVUS s.r.l.
Via P.Romano 13
72100-Brindisi
Italy
tel +39-0831-583299
fax +39-0831-508186
e-mail: olivia@olivia.it

Thank you.
stefano salvatore

P.S.: sorry for my english....
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