Coop. Olivarera de Valdepeñas Colival

The Colival Cooperative began in 1970, with a small group of farmers who decided to mill their olives on their own, directly managing their olive and oil production under the cooperative system. The decision was taken to acquire the land of the Agricultural Chamber, where the facilities were built: a milling room with presses, a decanting well, a small cellar, a boiler room, an atroje to store the olives and a small weighing machine.

Colival began with just a few members, but today it has around 900 members who have made the mill a benchmark in the sector. The Sociedad Cooperativa Olivarera de Valdepeñas, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2020, has become the economic engine of Valdepeñas, a town of 30,000 inhabitants. With a turnover of over 9 million euros, Valdepeñas is home to the annual production of more than three million kilos of oil.

In 2020, Colival was awarded the prize for the Best Olive Oil Mill in Spain and in recent years it has also won a multitude of prizes and awards in national and international specialised competitions with its premium extra virgin olive oil Valdenvero.