What Bottene does

Bottene Srl is an Italian engineering and manufacturing company founded in 1932 by Giorgio Bottene and headquartered in Zanè (Vicenza), in the Veneto wood-machinery district. The company designs, builds and installs industrial wood processing machinery — optimizing crosscut saws (OPTI 599, OPTIMAX 600, PUSH 100/250/250R/1200, R-series), finger jointers (HERON, SKYLINE, COMPACT), the MERLIN QX high-speed 4-sided multisensor scanner, UNIVERSAL planers, TARGET moulders and splitters, MONDIAL multi-rip saws, and PALLETS automation modules — plus turnkey engineering for wooden-house, glulam, frame and pallet production lines. Its core technology combines mechanical precision (e.g., Brushless-driven rack positioning at 250 m/min) with embedded computer vision and an optimization routine that detects defects and computes cutting positions in roughly 200 ms to maximize wood yield and reduce manual labor.

The company's business model is direct enterprise sales of high-capex industrial equipment, priced through custom quotations based on configuration, capacity and specification, typically under multi-year contracts that bundle engineering, installation and commissioning services. Bottene serves sawmills and lumber processors, pallet manufacturers, finger-joint product manufacturers (frames, glulam, wooden houses), planing/moulding operations and parquet producers through a horizontal segmentation approach. It reaches customers globally via a multilingual website (Italian, English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese), Ligna Hannover trade-fair participation, Acimall-hosted industry workshops, and direct contact channels; named customers include Artuso Legnami, with whom the firm has maintained a 30-year commercial relationship.

Bottene is privately held as an Srl with €20,000 registered share capital, founder-owned with no disclosed institutional investment, parent company or external funding history, and operates without subsidiaries. The entity footer references a parallel 'BOTTENE WOOD GROUP S.R.L.' address, indicating possible group-level structuring. Recent strategic activity has been product-led rather than financially-led — most notably the June 2025 launch of the PUSH 1200 automated cutting line and the 2019–2020 introduction of the MERLIN QX scanner together with a refreshed PUSH-series family — pointing to a mature, R&D-active industrial specialist executing incremental expansion of its machinery and turnkey-engineering portfolio.

Name

Bottene

Legal name

Bottene Srl

Website

https://bottene.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

1932

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bottene Srl is a privately held Italian manufacturer, founded in 1932 and based in Zanè (Vicenza), that designs and builds industrial wood processing machinery — crosscut saws, finger jointers, MERLIN QX vision scanners, planers, moulders and pallet automation — sold directly to sawmills, pallet producers and glulam manufacturers worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Schio

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Industrial Machinery Sales: Sale of industrial wood processing machinery including crosscut saws, finger jointers, scanners, planers, and multilame saws with various configurations and capacities
2. Engineering and Installation Services: Custom engineering and installation of turnkey automated production plants for wood processing applications including finger joint lines, pallet production lines, and glulam production

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Bottene designs and manufactures industrial wood processing machinery, including optimizing crosscut saws, finger jointers, planers, moulders, splitters, and multi-rip saws, alongside the MERLIN QX high-speed multisensor scanner for wood classification and optimization. The company also delivers turnkey engineered production plants for applications such as wooden houses, glulam beams, frames, pallet cutting, and parquet lamellas. Offerings are sold primarily to sawmills, pallet manufacturers, and finger joint product manufacturers through direct enterprise sales worldwide.

Product overview

Bottene is a manufacturer of industrial wood processing machinery offering a comprehensive portfolio of crosscutting saws, finger jointers, vision systems/scanners, planers, multi-rip saws, and automation solutions. The product line includes: OPTI 599 and OPTIMAX 600 continuous crosscut saws; MERLIN QX high-speed 4-sided multisensor scanner for wood classification; PUSH series push-type crosscut saws (PUSH 100, 250, 250R, 1200) in various configurations; R-series semiautomatic and sawmill crosscut saws; HERON, SKYLINE, and COMPACT finger jointers for wood joining; UNIVERSAL planers and TARGET moulders/splitters; MONDIAL multi-rip saws; and PALLETS automation systems. The company also provides turnkey engineering solutions for complete production lines including wooden houses, glulam beams, frames, and pallets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Wood TechnologyPassion: Company tagline/motto appearing on homepage: 'Wood TechnologyPassion'

Products and services

• OPTI 599 Optimizing crosscut saw for continuous wood processing with electronic optimization for optimal cutting positions. Designed for sawmills and lumber processing operations.
• OPTIMAX 600 Enlarged version of the OPTI 599 optimizing crosscut saw for larger wood dimensions, used in continuous wood processing applications.
• MERLIN QX Scanner High-speed 4-sided multisensor scanner for selecting and classifying soft and hard wood boards, detecting dimensions, quality, knots, resin pockets, bark, colors, and other characteristics and providing cutting optimization data.
• PUSH 100 Push-type optimizing crosscut saw for smaller wood processing applications.
• PUSH 250 Push-type optimizing crosscut saw for medium-sized wood processing.
• PUSH 250R Rotante Rotary optimizing crosscut saw with rotating blade, featuring high precision rack positioning system and Brushless motor enabling 250 m/min positioning speed.
• PUSH 1200 a pacco High-capacity pack-type crosscutting system for pallet producers with cutting capacity 130x1200mm and production capacity 220 mtc per shift, with multiple loading stations, brushing stations, and automatic pallet loading.
• PUSH 250 MAX Optimizing crosscut saw designed for large boards, equipped with Ø 800mm blade and cutting capacity 100x600mm, with 250 m/min positioning speed and 1mm accuracy.
• R400 - R500 - R550 Semiautomatic crosscut saws for semi-finished products, packaging, and door/window frame applications.
• R700 - R800 - RO500 Crosscut saws designed specifically for sawmill operations.
• HERON Pack-system finger jointer for end-to-end wood joining with automatic preparation and loading system.
• SKYLINE Pack-system finger jointer for continuous wood joining operations.
• COMPACT Continuous horizontal finger jointer for uninterrupted wood joining production lines.
• UNIVERSAL Planers Planers for beams available in sizes 300, 500, 700, 1000, 1500 with toothed and tempered rollers, electronically controlled axes, and soundproof cabinet.
• TARGET Scorniciatrici Moulder machines for wood profiling and shaping operations.
• TARGET Sdoppiatrici Splitting machines for separating wood panels.
• MONDIAL Multilame Multi-rip saw with moving blades for efficient wood cutting operations.
• PALLETS Automation Automated loading systems for pallet nailing lines including standard, perimeter, and EPAL configurations, plus 3-way block loaders and moulder/multilame unloading systems.
• Engineering Solutions Turnkey engineered production plants including wooden house production lines, glulam production for beams and walls, frame production lines, automatic crosscutting lines for pallets (PUSH 180 XL, PUSH 1200), boards selection lines, parquet lamellas production, and sanding machine loading systems.

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Bongioanni Macchine: Italian woodworking machinery manufacturer with comparable offerings in crosscutting and processing lines; competes most directly with Bottene in the Italian and Mediterranean customer base.

Broad incumbents

• SCM Group: One of the largest Italian woodworking machinery groups with a broad portfolio across solid wood processing, panel processing and finishing; overlaps with Bottene in planers, moulders and crosscutting but at far greater scale and breadth.
• Homag Group: German woodworking machinery leader (part of Dürr) supplying saws, CNC, edge banding and complete plant solutions; touches Bottene's space via sawing and handling/automation solutions for industrial wood shops.
• Biesse Group: Italian leader in machinery for processing wood, glass, stone, plastic and metal — competes in secondary woodworking and panel/edge processing relevant to Bottene-adjacent customers, though broader and more diversified than Bottene's sawmill specialization.

Direct peers

• Ledinek: Slovenian specialist in finger-jointing lines, glulam presses and engineered wood plants — directly comparable to Bottene's HERON/SKYLINE/COMPACT finger jointers and turnkey glulam/wooden-house engineering solutions.
• Microtec: Italian/Bavarian manufacturer of wood scanners and optimizing crosscut saws for the sawmill industry — competes head-to-head with the MERLIN QX scanner and OPTI 599-class optimizing lines on vision-based wood optimization.
• Weinig Group: German market leader in solid wood processing machinery, offering optimizing crosscut saws, finger jointers, moulders and planers that directly overlap Bottene's core product portfolio for sawmills and finger-joint producers.
• Wintersteiger: Austrian maker of thin-cutting and sawmill machinery (including optimizing bandsaws and resaws), overlapping with Bottene's sawmill crosscut (R700/R800) and optimization product lines for primary lumber processors.
• Leadermac Machinery: Taiwanese manufacturer of four-side moulders/planers and multi-rip saws — directly comparable to Bottene's UNIVERSAL planers, TARGET moulders and MONDIAL multi-rip product families for solid-wood processors.

Others

• Leitz: German tooling supplier for wood processing — not a direct machinery competitor but a key ecosystem participant whose saw blades and tooling are used in conjunction with Bottene machines, making it a relevant adjacent/thematic peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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