CVO Production
Extraction and production of crude vegetable oils from suitable oil-bearing seeds.
Crude Vegetable Oil, Defined
Crude Vegetable Oil (CVO) is the oil mechanically expelled from oil-bearing seeds before any further refining. It is produced by pressing prepared seeds and separating the resulting oil from the solid oilseed cake.
Turning Seed Into Oil
Oilseed processing takes suitable oil-bearing seeds through preparation and mechanical expelling to separate crude oil from the seed's solid material, which remains as oilseed cake.
Seed to CVO
Oilseed Selection
Seed Preparation
Mechanical Expelling
Oil Collection
Filtration
CVO Storage
Cake Collection
Oil Extraction
Oil is extracted from prepared seeds through mechanical expelling.
Filtration & Storage
Extracted oil is filtered and moved into CVO storage.
Oilseed Cake
The solid material remaining after expelling is collected as oilseed cake.
Oil-Bearing Crops We Work With
Eastern CVO works with a range of commercially viable oil-bearing crops. Not every seed has identical processing requirements.
Castor
Oil-bearing seed suitable for CVO production.
Cottonseed
Oil-bearing seed suitable for CVO production.
Groundnuts
Oil-bearing seed suitable for CVO production.
Canola / Rapeseed
Oil-bearing seed suitable for CVO production.
Sunflower
Oil-bearing seed suitable for CVO production.
Soybean
Oil-bearing seed suitable for CVO production.
Macadamia
Oil-bearing seed suitable for CVO production.
Other Commercially Viable Crops
Additional oil-bearing crops assessed on a case-by-case basis.
Discuss Your CVO Requirements
If your business requires crude vegetable oil, or you have oilseeds you would like processed, our team can discuss your processing requirements directly.
Discuss Your Processing RequirementsA Co-Product of Production
Mechanical expelling separates crude vegetable oil from the seed, leaving oilseed cake as a collected co-product of the process.