Collapsible IBCs add life to olive oil transport: the California Olive Ranch COR) breaks with traditions in growing, harvesting and processing olives. To protect its artisan olive oils from the vagaries of oxygen, light and time, it ships them in returnable, 220-gal corrugated bulk containers that have helped double productivity.(bulk-packing olive oil)

From: Packaging Digest | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Hartman Lauren R. | Copyright information

California Olive Ranch (COR), near Oroville in California's Sacramento Valley, says it's at the forefront of a movement to revolutionize California's olive oil business. Today, the company is America's largest grower and processor of olive oil. "We have two goals," says vp of sales and marketing Alan Greene, who is on a mission at the 500-acre ranch. "The first is to develop and expand domestic olive oil production. The second is to introduce American consumers to the healthful ple...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

TONY HALL ALSO AMBASSADOR FOR OLIVE OIL
Dayton Daily News ; Former Third District representative now processing, bottling and distributing own variety from farm in Italy * Tony Hall is the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations' food and agricultural agencies. Before becoming ambassador, Hall served as U.S. representative for Ohio's Third District from 1979
Olive Oil Drought May Trigger Price Spurt
Chicago Sun-Times ; It has all the earmarks of an oil crisis: Importers are warning of shortages and raising their prices. Consumers fearful of going without are starting to hoard. But don't install that gas tank in your yard yet. This is an olive oil crisis. Droughts in the Mediterranean last year withered the 1994
The Age of Olive Oil / Health benefits, range of flavors draw new fans
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph ; Olive oil connoisseurs are as particular about the color, aroma and flavor of their oils as oenophiles are about their fine wines - and with reason. Olives, like grapes, produce a wide range of flavors that differ according to the soil in the regions where they are grown, mostly in the
Spanish drought hits our love affair with olive oil.(News)
The Independent (London, England) ; Byline: Martin Hickman Consumer Affairs Correspondent For 20 years, the mellifluous green liquid has taken pride of place in middle-class kitchens across the country, a product of the Italian food boom that swept Britain in the 1980s and never left. But this autumn cooks will have to go easy on
Texas farmers press on with new product: olive oil
The Journal Record ; Eight years is small stuff in the life of the ancient olive tree, but it's a long time for a new farmer to wait for a crop. After much trial and error, two orchards have produced olives their growers will press into Texas' first olive oil this year. That is, if an oil press arrives in time from