The company's activity covers all the sectors of utilisation of wood products:

sawn softwood,

temperate and tropical hardwood,

all wood panels (plywood, chipboard, MDF, OSB, edge-glued-panels, etc.)

semifinished products

mouldings,

furniture and doors components,

flooring,

building components,

etc.     

The company works mainly in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, although it also covers bigger global projects.   

The company, started in 1990 and has a very large knowledge of all the woodworking sectors of the European industry: sawmilling, wood panels, building elements, furniture and flooring industries, etc. It has a huge Data Bank containing statistics, import-export and production figures of most wood-using sectors in Europe.

For bigger projects covering the USA, Canada and Asia, Gardino Consulting has selected a team of specialised consultants with a great knowledge also of these areas, therefore assuring a world coverage, with a unique project responsibility.

Gardino Consulting also uses a team of specialists in specific fields: certification, norms, technical aspects, etc.

The team of Gardino Consulting speak fluently Italian, English, French, Spanish, German and of other Mediterranean languages including Portuguese, Greek, and Arabic and other languages if necessary.

Gardino Consulting is a small company, but it has probably the strongest professional consulting team operating in the wood sector in Southern Europe, thanks to the trust of its clients.

Dott. Paolo Gardino, the company owner, has been until 1990 General Manager or Chairman of several companies involved in the production, import and distribution of wood products, in the Do-it-yourself, in Europe and in tropical countries.

Dott. Gardino is Honorary President of ATIBT (Asociation Téchnique Internationale des Bois Tropicaux), the only worldwide association, created by FAO and OECD to handle technical and trade problems concerning tropical forests. The association is based in Paris and it has members in more than 30 countries.

He has been a member of the Italian delegation to the European Softwood Conference for 10 years. Member of the press committee of the Conference for 4 years.

He has been member of the Italian-Scandinavian Committee since it was created.

Dott. Gardino has been a lecturer at conferences or teacher at seminars in many countries: USA, UK, Chile, Latvia, Estonia, France, Gabon, Brazil, Guyana, New Zealand, etc.

The team also includes:

Paavo Kivinen. He is resident in Finland. Former production and sawmill manager of one of the largest Finnish sawmills, field forest manager of another group and in the last years managing director of a company exporting to all the European and Middle East countries. He still is member of the board of the Nordic Timber Council, of the Promotion Campaign for wood use in the UK, he is Finnish Forest Industries official arbitrator. He speaks fluently Finnish, Swedish, German, English, French.

Luciano Ceruti. He has been for many years sales manager and purchasing manager of one of the largest Italian wood importers. Director of important branch units of the company. In the last years he lived in Austria and he was managing director for one of the largest Austrian sawmills.

       

These are some of the main clients:

• FAO - Rome
• Europe

- Finnforest - Finland
- Finnish Forest Industries Association - Finland
- Finnish Timber Council – Finland
- Metsä Timber – Finland
- Vapo – Finland
- GTZ - Germany
- Csil – Italy
- Cosmit – Italy
- Fantoni - Italy
- FAO - Italy
- Fedecomlegno – Italy
- Assi-Lovholmens - Sweden
- Graningeverkens - Sweden
- Iggesund Timber - Sweden
- SCA - Sweden
- Stora - Sweden
- Swedish Wood Exporters Association - Sweden
- American Hardwood Export Council - UK
- Hunter Timber - UK
- Interpan – UK
- Ibec Severstal - Russia

• North America

- B.C. Wood Forest Products Specialties
- Bayside
- Foresbec
- Norbord
- Rayonier
- Weldwood of Canada
- Weyerhaeuser

• South America

- Aserraderos Mininco
- Eurochile
- Fundación Chile
- Ignisterra
- Masisa

- Ministry of Industry - Guyana

• Central America

- Ministry of Environment - Costa Rica

.... and many other companies in many countries.