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Industry | n. m.
a process whereby olives are ground by means of hammer mills, metal tooth grinders or roller mills in order to break down the tissue structure and thus obtain the paste.

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two processes are carried out in the preparation of the paste; the first is called "milling" and its aim is to break down the vegetable structure of the olives, in order to free droplets of oil present inside the cells that constitute the oily parenchyma of the mesocarp.

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this is the first stage in the production of olive oil, regardless of the separation method employed subsequently. Today some mills pit the olives prior to milling in order to obtain oils with milder organoleptic features. milling is such an important step in the production of oil that olive production facilities are commonly called mills, even though other industrial processes are also involved in olive production.