The company Del Prete Legnami S.r.l. is specialized in cutting and distributing firewood. Thanks to the experience passed on for 3 generations, the quality of the material, the excellent know-how in cutting and seasoning of wood and timber the company Del Prete Legnami is the favorite supplier of the most important pizzerias all over Italy.
In 1940 Mr. Vincenzo Del Prete, the grandfather of the current company owner started to trade with wood and timber transporting it with a cart from Frattamaggiore to the dockyards in Naples. In 2010 the younger generation of the Del Prete family, Enzo and Francesco, took over the family activity balancing the family's trade experience with the new technologies and specializing themselves in supplying firewood to catering businesses.
The firewood
Our wood is Italian and comes from silviculture where the cutting of the wood is monitored by the forestry service. We trade with different wood species, but let's just remember the principal varieties:
Oak
Among the most popular oak varieties there are sessile oak, holm oak and turkey oak. Oak is very precious and a solid material, it's compact and heavy and it has a high heating value. It burns slowly and for a long time and it maintains the flame in the fireplace producing long lasting embers. Oak is an excellent fuel for heating and it's appreciated for cooking.
Beech
A beech is a tree that can grow up to 30 meters and it grows on mountains. Its wood is very solid and uniform in its structure. It's quite heavy and it has a good heating value. Beech wood burns with a vivid flame and it's long lasting. It is a very good firewood for heating and cooking. Upon request we may provide for different varieties such as blue-beech, alder and olive wood.
