Pastorino

What Pastorino does

Pastorino Srl is an Italian family-owned B2B producer of virgin-wood wood chips (cippato), headquartered in Carcare (province of Savona, Liguria) with production concentrated at a single facility in Bormida. The company mechanically chips and screens virgin timber sourced exclusively from forests in Liguria and Piedmont, producing approximately 70-80 thousand tons of wood chips annually. Output spans two industrial product lines: Cippato per Caldaie, sold as fuel for biomass boilers in district heating and electricity generation, and Cippato per Biofiltri, a 100% virgin chestnut-wood chip used as filter media for odor and exhaust-air treatment in waste, food and livestock facilities. Both lines are offered in four calibrated chip sizes (big without grate, 120x120mm, 70x70mm, 30x50mm) to match downstream equipment specifications.

The company operates a lean, sales-led go-to-market with no intermediaries: customer acquisition runs through the pastorinosrl.com website (Italian and English), a contact form, and direct phone and email outreach handled by sole administrator Adolfo Pastorino. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, with revenue generated on transactional one-off purchase contracts rather than subscriptions. The Bormida facility is D. Lgs. 152/2006-compliant for mechanical biomass treatment, and Pastorino holds phytosanitary certification enabling export. The customer base is restricted to industrial buyers in Liguria and Piedmont, and no named end customers, revenue figures, or growth metrics are disclosed.

With a headcount of 1-10 employees and no external investors or funding rounds on record, Pastorino Srl is structured as a tightly held family operating company rooted in over three centuries of regional wood-working heritage (documented since 1713, formalized at the Chamber of Commerce from 1910, with the current Benarco/ Pastorino operations dating to the 1980s). It evolved from charcoal and firewood into steel-industry wood chips and, following the Italian steel crisis, repositioned into renewable-energy biomass and industrial biofiltration chips under the Pastorino Srl brand while retaining the historic Benarco logo.

Name

Pastorino

Legal name

Pastorino Srl

Website

https://pastorinosrl.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Pastorino Srl is an Italian family-owned B2B producer of virgin-wood chips (cippato) in Liguria, supplying biomass-fuel chips for district heating and 100% chestnut-wood chips for industrial biofilters to customers across Liguria and Piedmont.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Biomass Fuel Manufacturing

NAICS

Sawmills (321113), Sawmills and Wood Preservation (32111), Wood Product Manufacturing (321)

SIC

Sawmills & Planting Mills, General (2421), Forestry (800)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYIMAMABAG

Wood Chipping, Residue Processing & Biomass Feedstock

Industrials, Manufacturing & Construction/Paper & Forest Products/Sawmills & Wood Processing

SECONDARYAFAMAJAE

Whole-Tree Chipping for Biomass

Agriculture & Food Production/Forestry & Logging/Wood Chipping & Residue Recovery (Forest Residues)

SECONDARYAFAMAJAF

In-Woods Comminution & Size Reduction (Chippers/Grinders)

Agriculture & Food Production/Forestry & Logging/Wood Chipping & Residue Recovery (Forest Residues)

Keywords

• Wood chip production
• Biomass fuel
• Biofilter media
• Forest biomass processing
• Industrial wood chips

Headquarters

HQ city

Carcare

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Wood chips for biomass boilers: Sale of wood chips (cippato) produced from virgin timber of softwoods, broadleaves, chestnut and alder, used as fuel for biomass boilers in district heating and electricity production.
2. Wood chips for biofilters: Sale of wood chips made from 100% virgin chestnut wood, used as filtering material for air purification and odor elimination in waste treatment, food industry, and livestock facilities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Pastorino Srl processes virgin forest biomass from Ligurian and Piedmont forests into wood chips (cippato) for B2B sale. The company produces two product lines: wood chips for biomass boilers used in district heating and electricity generation, and wood chips for biofilters used in industrial air purification. The Bormida facility processes approximately 70-80 thousand tons of timber annually through mechanical chipping and screening operations.

Product overview

Pastorino Srl is a B2B wood chip (cippato) production and sales company specializing in virgin forest biomass processing. The company produces two main product lines: Cippato per Caldaie (Chips for Boilers) for use as fuel in biomass boilers, district heating, and electricity production; and Cippato per Biofiltri (Chips for Biofilters) for air purification and odor elimination. Both product lines are produced in four different sizes (big without grate, big with 120x120mm grate, medium with 70x70mm grate, and small with 30x50mm grate) tailored for different applications. All products are manufactured through mechanical treatment at the Bormida facility, processing approximately 70/80 thousand tons of timber annually from Ligurian and Piedmont forests.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cippato per Caldaie (Wood Chips for Boilers) Wood chips made exclusively from virgin timber of softwoods, broadleaves, chestnut, and alder sourced from Ligurian and Piedmont forests. Used as fuel for biomass boilers in district heating installations and electricity production plants. Available in multiple sizes (big chips, medium chips with 70x70mm grate, fine chips with 30x50mm grate) to suit different boiler specifications.
• Cippato per Biofiltri (Wood Chips for Biofilters)

Quantifiable outcome

• Carbon neutral: CO2 released during combustion equals CO2 absorbed during tree's lifecycle
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Binderholz: Austrian integrated wood-processing group producing sawn timber, panels, and biomass/pellet products. Comparable to Pastorino for sawn-timber-residue handling and biomass feedstock production, but with a much broader product portfolio and pan-European footprint.
• Stora Enso: Major Nordic forest products company with significant biomass and wood-chip operations across pulp, packaging, and renewable energy. Comparable to Pastorino as a wood-chip/biomass producer, though operating at a vastly larger scale with global customers.
• Sodra: Swedish forest-owner cooperative producing sawn timber, pulp, and biomass. Comparable to Pastorino in converting managed forest feedstock into wood chips and biomass for energy customers, but at Nordic industrial scale.
• UPM-Kymmene: Finnish forest-bioenergy major producing forest biomass, wood chips, and biofuels. Pastorino's forest-biomass chip production mirrors UPM's downstream biomass-feedstock model, though UPM operates across the entire forest-products value chain at industrial scale.
• Mayr-Melnhof Holz: Austrian sawmill and timber-products group with biomass byproducts. Comparable to Pastorino for sawn-timber processing and biomass co-product (wood chips) generation, with integrated forest management and multiple production sites.
• HS Timber Group (formerly Holzwerke Schweighofer): European sawmill and solid wood products company with biomass co-products. Operates across multiple CEE countries and serves both structural timber and biomass/energy markets, comparable to Pastorino's wood-chipping and biomass-feedstock business but at a substantially larger scale.

Regional players

• Vandecasteele Houtimport: Belgian wood importer and processor supplying sawn timber, panels, and biomass to distributors and industrial buyers. Comparable to Pastorino for short supply chain and European wood-chip distribution, though primarily a trading/importer rather than a forest-to-chip producer.
• Pali Italia: Italian wood-products manufacturer focusing on treated poles, posts, and timber derivatives. Comparable to Pastorino in Italian-wood processing and B2B sales of forest-derived products, though oriented toward structural/utility wood rather than biomass chips.
• Segantin Legnami: Italian timber merchant and processor supplying sawn wood and related products to domestic industrial customers. Comparable to Pastorino as a regional Italian wood processor/marketer, but with broader product scope and no public emphasis on biomass chip production.

Direct peers

• Hasslacher Norica Timber: Austrian sawmill group that produces sawn timber and biomass byproducts (wood chips, pellets) for energy and industrial customers. Comparable to Pastorino as a verticalized wood-processor turning forest feedstock into biomass-grade chips and residues for the energy/heat market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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