Olive leaves are picked using a dedicated machine, washed and left to dry in the dryer. A trolley dryer is normally used for this purpose, but a floor dryer may be used for larger volumes of leaves to achieve greater cost efficiency. After drying, the leaves are cut to a desired size and either finished by sifting to obtain the final cut material or further processed. The latter includes pulverisation and sifting, which produces a powder used as production material for tea and packaged into filter bags.
