Olivebar’s products are made out of recycled waste from agriculture and the food industry.
Stacks of Drying Pomace
OliveBar Bulk Pomace
Olivebar’s bulk pomace is used by industrial plants as a source of energy on a large scale. It is dried in the sun, using almost no fossil energy, to a level specified by the leading electricity power plants. To reduce carbon emissions in the production process, Olivebar operates in several sites, reducing road travel of trucks carrying material from the olive mills to Olivebar’s plant, and from our plant to client.
The use of olive residue for energy generation contributes to reduction of greenhouse gases as fundamentally it is a form of biomass with carbon neutral characteristics (as the carbon emitted when burning biomass originated from the atmosphere during the plant’s growth). As stated earlier, Olivebar emphasizes in its production process the lowest carbon emissions possible, thus ensuring that deviations from carbon neutrality will be as small as possible.
OliveBar Heatlogs
OliveBar Heating Logs
Olivebar’s prime invention with a pending patent in the US, Europe and Israel. Olivebar’s logs provide a cleaner and a more effective means of heating source for wood stoves. It contains more energy (calorific value) than wood, burns much longer than a regular wood log and provides a cleaner environment around the stove. The log burns very efficiently emitting non visible smoke, as the material is very dry.
The pomace is mixed with additional organic matter that improve the burning performance of the pressed log, pressed and dried in the sun. Drying material in the sun requires a large area, yet Olivebar technology enables to dry a ton and a half of material on an area of only one square meter.
OliveBar Green Charcoals
OliveBar “Green” Charcoals
Olivebar’s latest and most unique development are charcoals from olive pomace and pits. Olivebar is a pioneer in carbonizing biomass and has developed its own system in a continuous process, using the energy released from the raw material to feed the process. Thus the production process requires only a small amount of energy at the beginning of the process and uses the energy emitted during the carbonization process to complete the process.
Carbonization is the process in which most of the material apart from carbon is “squeezed out” mechanically using high temperature and with almost no oxygen. The result is an energy product that is easily stored, not influenced by water and pests, until required for cooking. The process contributes to reduction of greenhouse gases via methane avoidance (provided emissions from the process are not released to the atmosphere as Olivebar process ensures). Olivebar’s charcoals light easily provide perpetual and steady heat for grilling and cooking.