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if desired.The company's uniqueness is
given by the perfect coexistence between
avant-garde technology and meticulous
craft-based procedures; the use of top-
quality raw materials; and substantial
investments in research and development.
ALPI partners with big industries
(from automotive to shipbuilding) and
international companies specialising
in furniture, product design, interior
decoration and architectural contracting
services. ALPI stands out in the
worldwide panorama for its direct control
over the entire production process, from
the trunk to the finished veneer, starting
with forest management. Certification
by the Forest Stewardship Council
guarantees the wood's provenance from
correctly, responsibly managed forests in
accordance with rigorous environmental,
social and economic standards. ALPI
is therefore the guarantor of a certified,
ecologically sound product.
Profound synergy between ALPI and
the design world has originated in long-
the-minute elements and local tradition taking apart and putting back together a standing collaborations with exceptional
is promoted by the use of finely crafted tree-trunk. This creates a material that is design talents. This lively, continually
materials such as ALPI wood, giving not printed, but so patterned as to offer evolving link led to an alliance with
characterful uniqueness to the renovated limitless aesthetic results. Piero Lissoni, who has held the role of art
JW Marriott Hotel Lima. ALPI represents an undisputed gold director at ALPI since 2015.
standard in wood technology. As such, it Directed by Vittorio Alpi, the founder's
ALPI is a company of excellence, distinguished grandson, the company's multiple
ALPI is a leading manufacturer of by the breadth of its product range and factories employ 400 people in Italy and
decorative surfaces made of reconstituted ability to meet the specific requests of over 1,300 in Africa. ALPI products are
wood. The company was the first to a highly diversified client base. ALPI distributed in more than 60 countries. dw
industrialise this process. Alpilignum designs bespoke solutions, each of which
veneer is made of real wood, produced by can be reproduced identically years later, www.alpi.it

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