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Breaking into a new era.
New, dynamic leadership duo for Steirerkraft.
Since April 2024, Christian Briggl has taken over as the new Managing Director of our company. Together with Martina Hubmann, Christian will form a young, dynamic leadership duo and lead our traditional company into the future with vision.
Christian Briggl enters the exciting food industry with enthusiasm. He emphasizes the importance of unexpected challenges and opportunities: “Things often turn out differently than expected. Healthy food, appreciation for our nature, and social skills will shape the future – and for me, this reflects the corporate culture of Estyria Naturprodukte.”
Ein kleiner Einblick
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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