Sawmill at home: a business initiative to enhance the local wood

Sawmill at home: a business initiative to enhance the local wood

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This company was founded in 2013, when a manager in the IT sector, Carlo Petrolo, decided to renovate a family farmhouse using the trees on the property. None of the few remaining sawmills, however, makes itself available to take a few logs and then saw them. Petrolo sees an opportunity in this crisis situation. Thus was born the idea of ​​preparing a mobile, self-transportable sawmill service, suitable for all those who had the need to work their own wood on site.

The activity appears easily replicable with reduced investments. In addition, a service like this could complement another activity, forest or agricultural. However, a widespread action of promotion and contact with all possible purchasers of the service is necessary: ​​very diversified subjects, since we pass from the forest operator to the private citizen, up to the public administration. In the case in question, marketing activities via internet had a fundamental role, especially through social networks.

The service, initially based on a single mobile sawmill, immediately received great interest from operators in the sector and inhabitants in mountain areas. The service, now expanded also in the Italian territory with several mobile sawmills in action. It has responded to the need of many small private owners or farms who are often in a position to be unable to use their raw materials due to the lack of local facilities still capable of sawing small quantities. This experience has also been the forerunner of numerous other alpine entrepreneurial activities (forest companies and treeclimbers) that have purchased mobile sawmills to enhance the wood that was previously used as biomass or waste.

Regione di origine
3174618
Tipo di legno
Fusto
Origine del legno
foresta
potenziale di mobilitazione
1.500-3.000 m3/year
Tipo di legno in questione
Cedar, chestnut, cypress, walnut, poplar, oak
potenziale sostenibilità
Good environmental (total respect of regional laws of tree protection and safety work for cutting) , economic (price work higher in front of traditional sawing market) and social sustainability (2 people for each sawmill)
Impatto sull'ambiente e la biodiversità

N/A

Facilità di implementazione
Not easy
Impatto economico
45-90.000 €/year
Effetto sul lavoro
2 workers for each sawmill
Effetto sul reddito
N/A
conoscenze specifiche necessarie
Tree cutting in urban areas, tree climbing technics and sawmill utilization
prerequisiti chiave

Strong advertising of sawmill service al regional level

1 ° Dominio (principale)
industrie forestali, bio / economia circolare
soluzione digitale
No
Innovazione
No
Paese d'origine
Italia
Regione di origine
3174618
Scala di applicazione
Regionale / sub-nazionale
Inizio e fine anno
-
References and Resources
Progetto nell'ambito del quale questa scheda è stata creata
Rosewood