Oil Factory Banat today is a plant with 170 regulary employees and operates within the company Mirotin DOO Vrbas a modern business system in the field of agro-industry. Within the same company operates five major businesses.
History...
The factory was established in May 12th 1961. as a facility for the production of technical castor oil. Manufacturing operation begins 1963. with a processing capacity of 24 tons / day of castor seeds. After reconstruction in 1967., processing capacity is doubled. In addition to the castor seed, starts processing and other seeds, especially sunflower, soybean and rapeseed, so from then on factory produces technical castor oil and crude vegetable sunflower, soybean, rapeseed oil and its cake. Development of the factory had been continued during 1969. when it began construction of silos storage capacity 10.000t sunflower, and new drying plant for seed.
During1974. begans the construction of the crushing plant, which had a processing capacity of 290 tons / day of sunflower seed. The plant contained section for the extraction of cake, so that the factory from 1977. start to produces crude vegetable oils and its meals. The next step in the development was construction of silos storage of 28,000 tons sunflower seed, and construction of drying plant for seeds with supporting facilities. This make the plant one of the biggest producers in the oil industry. In the period 1985-1988, is built one steam boiler unit and, drying facilities for seed, as well as tanks for storage of crude oil, so that the plant has an oil storage tanks with total capacity of over 16,000 t. in 1996. was made decision to build a refining plant as a physical refining process, which would enable the factory unique position in the domestic market and is ranked in order of most modern processors in the global oil industry. Processing of oil by physical refining process started in 1998. The factory continues to grow through 2003 when was bought the section and facilities for drying and storage of oilseeds, and starts production of pressed virgin oil from pumpkin seed, and production of oil from sunflower seeds high olenic type Olivko. This production become the exclusive of this type of oil on the market. Installing the new equipment, in crushing plant 2004. was increased processing capacity from 300 to 400 tons / day of sunflower seed. In the same year, shortly after reconstruction of crushing plant, was built a new packaging line for oil in PET bottle, which allows packaging of 144,000 l / day refined oil. The same time was done part reconstruction of the production facilities and built two new tanks for refined oil.
Further development of the factory is expected towards the production of an even broader range of products like salad and spicy oil, build larger storage capacities and expansion of production capacity.