Keeping track of the multiple demands of the modern era, the food industry is attempting to comprehensively understand the challenges, explore the alternative actions it can go through and move towards adopting practices that will improve capacity and strengthen the industry's transition to a more modern and adapted to today's needs commercial environment.
In this direction, AMALTHIA is trying to maintain its strong identity in the modern international market, following a solid strategy of continuous investment
- in its human resources,
- in its technological equipment and facilities,
- in the transition to adoption of environmentally friendly practices,
- in the consistent quality of its products,
- in the reliable and long-term relationship with its suppliers and olive producers,
- but also, in the development of new innovative products utilizing the by-products created in the context of the production process.
AMALTHIA maintains partnerships with research organizations, such as Higher Educational University Institutions, in order to develop and strengthen its products’ portfolio, to be directly connected to scientific knowledge and to contribute to the development of new processing-preservation technologies for table olives. The goal remains to promote the Greek table olives to the maximum possible extent and in every corner of the planet, since it constitutes a valuable natural component of our daily diet and one of the strongest exportable Greek products with superior quality characteristics.
Thus, with a vision to the utilization of olive by-products and, in general, of table olives that cannot be commercially used in their present form, the company is currently collaborating with the Laboratory for the Study of Consumer Reactions and Sensory Analysis of Food and Beverages of the Department of Food Science and Nutrition of the University of the Aegean (www.sensory.gr), in order to make research and dynamically develop innovative products based on the olive, which will satisfy the demands of the end consumer to the maximum.
The series of studies that have been carried out so far were presented at the 1st Panhellenic Conference on Sensory Analysis (SenSo 2024) held in Myrina, Lemnos, June 25-28, 2024, by the employee of the company Mr. Dimitris Kotousias, PhD Candidate at the University of the Aegean, eliciting very positive and encouraging feedback for the progress of the investigations so far.
