GREECE THESSALONIKI

Eleni Vouza

My name is Eleni Vouza, and I'm a miller from Portaria village, in northern Greece, Halkidiki peninsula.

My name is Eleni Vouza, and I live in Portaria village, in the northern Greece in Halkidiki peninsula. I am 64 years’ old, and I own an olive oil mill, founded in 1965, with milling capacity of 45-50 tons of olives per 8hr. My family’s income comes only from the olive oil mill and I plan to increase the olive oil milling capacity, because my two sons Savvas & Tasos are willing to follow the family’s steps of olive oil processing.

⸻ About
Through ideal production conditions on cold extraction, certifications, and collaboration with the scientific community, my main objective is to produce extra virgin olive oils (EVOOs) with the highest quality.

I would like to introduce my company, “Eleni Vouza olive oil mill”. Through ideal production conditions on cold extraction, certifications, and collaboration with the scientific community, my main objective is to produce extra virgin olive oils (EVOOs) with the highest quality. These EVOOs, through my client’s bottling companies, were honored with more than 50 international quality awards in the past five years and their high-quality production process is IFS:v6 and ISO 22000:2018. Moreover, they support many scientific researches, and the finished product has high levels of polyphenols.

⸻ EVOO & Virgin Olive Oil
My milling process follows environmentally friendly practices, with low water usage and an ecological waste management system.

My olive mill is located in Halkidiki, very close to the sea and due to the seaside microclimate and the type of integrated management cultivation system of my collaborated olive tree farmer clients, I am able to start the milling process in the middle of September every year and finish it at the end of December. Moreover, my milling process follows environmentally friendly practices, with low water usage and an ecological waste management system, with the most important ecological practice being the reusing of wastewater for olive groves’ watering.

⸻ Natural Environment

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