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Industry | n. phr.
Each of the filtering disks or plates made of plastic fibers/fibres or thick esparto grass fabric on which paste is spread and which, once stacked up on top of each other in a pile, make up the load in the pressing process.

Example

You can taste the difference in the olive oil when a pressing mat hasn´t been cleaned and all the sediment has been left to rot. Syn.: esparto mat.

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