Plant Operations and Safety
At Aadrea Essential Oils, we continually review and update our production process to keep apace with changing market requirements. The volume and capacity of production and packaging technology is under constant review to match your product needs.
We remain committed to support a vast range of client needs, for our households, businesses and manufacturer clients. Therefore, our production processes have been selected to ensure very limited to non use of chemical additives, adulterants, solvents and cleaners.
A young and versatile team is on task, on the production lines, in the field and at the shop floor at every moment. Safety of personnel is a key part of our HSE. Personnel protectives (PPEs) are strongly emphasised on the production floor, as well as in the operation of other equipment off the production floor.
We prioritise the selection of quality plant stocks from supplier locations. Our field engagement strategy emphasises locational visits to farms, supply of quality farm seed and cuttings for farm expansion and advisory on on-farm practices. On account of Aadre Essentials own efforts, the recognition of aromatic crops as a viable alternate to traditional and commercial crops is quickly gaining prominence.
In all bottles and packages leaving our production lines, Aadrea Essential Oils guarantees authentic and natural essential oils or extracts. Our guarantee of a pure product is founded on our commitment to ensure that in every package you will find only natural oil or extract, with no chemical additive, dilutant or preservatives.
We strive to source only natural organic plant stock as extract sources for all our products. This commitment is shared by our suppliers are committed to the best farm management practices, ensuring that that best possible natural quality is achieved.
On this page, we highlight our major production line, and invite you on a journey with us to enable us produce the most ideal natural extracts suitable for your needs.
SFE – Supercritical Fluid Extraction
Aadrea Essential Oils uses SFE production technology which leaves no solvent residue, for the best extracts from seeds, nuts, powders and pulps. This technology supports the extraction of Aadrea Essentials CO2 extracts which include Vanilla extract oil, Coffee extract oil, Cinnamon bark extract, Sandalwood extract and others.
The core solvent used is food grade carbondioxide CO2 (purity of 99.9%) . Production technology is a compact unit of super critical carbon dioxide extractors, which are fully computer operated.
Steam Distillation
An unrivalled and conventional source of pure essential oils. This technique enables us to produce high-purity essential oils while preserving their therapeutic properties. It avoids thermal degradation of compounds, making it suitable for heat-sensitive materials.
A set of food grade oil distillation units made of stainless steel. These are complemented by an electronically controlled steam generator which utilises filtered water from a municipal water source.
Our units ensure reliable supply for the best quality essential oils, on a regular basis. The technology has very short change overs between stock batches, and allows for as many as 50 batches of material processed in a production day. This technology makes it possible to run quick trials on novel products. The bulk of the essential oil products are made by Steam Distillation.
Hydraulic and Cold Press Expression
Aadrea Essential Oils relies on a set of industrial grade cold press lines to support the production of high quality organic vegetable extracts.
We have the capacity to express as low as 100KGS and as much as 5,000KGS of oil extract per day. Our Cold Press and Hydraulic Expression lines bring to market the most natural wholesome butters, oils and powders.
We complement the expression process with a modern separation and filtration unit. This ensures that the oil extract is free of residue or lighter /sub-grade co-products. .
Filtration , Separation and Sorting
Production commences with an intricate process of stock preparation. This involves physical and visual inspection, cleaning and drying /dehydrating. Stock for steam distillation will be passed, from physical and visual inspection, to drying racks or straignt to the distillation units.
Dealing with barks, roots, seeds and nuts, however, calls for more detailed handling. Stocks requiring granulation, breaking, and dehusking will be thoroughly inspected for foreign matter and any effluent. They will be cleaned and then introduced into the equipment for pulverising and separation. Product extraction only commences when the substrate is of fine and consistent quality.