Olive-Pomace Oil

Manufacturer• Tunisia• Member since 1893

Zouila is a Tunisian cooperative based in Mahdia. The company states it was founded in 1893 by an Italian and five Mahdia families and became fully Tunisian in 1956. It describes itself as a specialist in olive-pomace oil extraction and soap making. The company states that its main activities include the production of olive oil, olive-pomace oil and crude vegetable oils such as sunflower, rapeseed and soybean oil, and that it offers refining of corn, sunflower and soybean oils as a service. A refining unit was installed in 1984 and renewed in 2008, with a stated refining capacity of 90 tons per day. Zouila states that it produces 6,000 tons of pomace oil and 75,000 tons of olive pomace per year, employs 170 people, holds ISO 9002 certification and has entered the Russian market.