Olive Trade

AT OLIVE TRADE®
WE CARE ABOUT OLIVES

Early nineteenth century Beino, a small communal village tucked in the northern hilly Lebanese landscape, saw the start of a Fares family tradition, pressing olives gathered from own and nearby orchards.

The love and care for olives trickled through generations, up until 2004, when a modern emphasis was coupled with that tradition, giving rise to Olive Trade and its array of coveted brands.

Modernity in no way meant giving up on know-how or quality control. Quite the contrary, actually. It just invited science to take hold of meticulous cultural practices, harvesting techniques, production, and storage, as a safeguard to exceptional quality.

A commitment to centuries of Mediterranean knowhow lies at the very foundations of olive trade, and extends to employing the highest standards in harvesting practices across state-of-the-art, eco-friendly production and storage facilities (ISO 22000: 2005, Eco label), all while maintaining strong support to the local farmer community, and implementing organic agriculture to protect our land for future generations.

BAINO TERROIR

Baino is located in the northern part of Lebanon, in the region of Akkar, along the rolling hills under the slopes of Lake Kamouaa. Being removed further to the east from the seaboard, at an altitude of about 550 meters, it relishes a moderate climate of low humidity and very rare snowfall.

Olive orchards in and around Baino abound exclusively with the Souri variety of olives, named after the ancient Phoenician sea port of Sour –Tyr.

This natural environment, bound by the river Ostwan, the natural reserve of Dahr el Aali, and surrounding villages, with its distinct soil, topography and climate, in addition to the ancestral know-how transmitted across the generations, imparts typical accents that brand Baino’s olive oil

OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION

Just like our ancestors did in the old days, we steer clear of any intensive systems ofcultivation. As is, we take pride in harvesting our rain-fed and unbruised green and black olives by hand.

Transported by crates to our ISO 22000 certified olive oil processing facility, the olives are thoroughly washed, crushed, and mixed before the oil is cold-extracted solely by mechanical means, using a water-saving, stainless steel, fully-automated processing unit.

After a couple of weeks of decantation, our oil is lightly filtered and packed in environmentally friendly packaging. Bi-products from the process are then valorized to be used either for irrigation or heating

ETHICS

Discover the ethics behind our produce

SUSTAINABILITY

Relying on traditional farming techniques with manual harvesting methods, and rainas an exclusive source of irrigation, ensures a positive carbon footprint and beneficial effect to the environment.

TRACEABILITY

Any of our packed products can be individually traced back to its fieldof origin, and, from there, followed on its journey to our points of sale.

LOCAL FARMERS

Our commitment to supporting local farmers and their produce helps preserve farmer communities in place to perpetually take care of the land andkeep it in a pristinecondition for generations to come.

Cleaner production center

Our production system is certified as a cleaner production center with recycling of both the black water and olive husk byproducts produced while extracting olive oil.

ISO 22000 : 2005

2005Our factory adopts the latest technology in olive oil extraction and storage, conforming to the rigorous ISO 22000: 2005 standards.

ORGANIC

Our orchards in Baino and our production system are certified as per the European and Lebanese Organic laws.

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