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high-tech processing facilities
High-tech processing facilities
Our entire range of pumpkin seed and scarlet runner bean products, including Wertvoll ready-meals, is produced in state-of-the-art production facilities. Specialised processes such as gravity separation, optical sorting, X-rays checks and reduction of microbial contaminants ensure total product safety.
As leaders in the fields of technology and quality we guarantee a purity level of 99.99%.
Our allergy-free production facilities enable us to meet all the standards and requirements of our customers. Our packing technology provides maximum flexibility for every need. We offer a wide range of options from big bags to miniature packs. We have also come up with individual design solutions – a unique selling point.
reasons for a partnership
Our product range
The biggest contract grower
of oil pumpkins PGI
Alwera AG, Estyria’s parent company, is responsible for production of the raw goods via a contract farming system. The two companies have for some years maintained the largest PDI area of oil pumpkin in Austria and they know the fields and the farmers personally.
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Traditional Styrian
stamp press process
While modernity has brought progress in many areas, the traditional Styrian stamp press process is still the best way of making pumpkin seed oil. The main difference between this and other pressing methods is that we work with open roasting pans. At our plant, people check when the pumpkin seeds are perfectly roasted and so will yield the very best oil. This enables our experienced oil millers to produce the pumpkin seed oil that has won more prizes than any other – and which as a result of this type of pressing retains all the natural constituents. The untreated oil is not filtered; the particles that make it cloudy settle naturally when the oil is left to rest.
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