Company
History
Polesine is an agricultural area lying on a plain located between the two longest rivers in Italy: the Po and the Adige. A land of mills, by conformation and nature. Our mill is one of them: founded in Lendinara in the 1800s, it has grown little by little, just the way good bread is made. Today, Macinazione Lendinara is a historic brand owned by the Cavallari family, known and admired by both professionals and food companies, renowned for the quality of its flours and its ability to offer customers a flexible, comprehensive and tailor-made solution.
The company’s original headquarters remained in its hometown while the new production plant built in the 1990s is located in Arcole (Verona), a state-of-the-art facility capable of producing 450 tonnes of flour per day destined for the professional market and the large food industry.
The mill today
The story of each mill grows together with that of its people: the family’s eight factories are divided among the different heirs, while the original plant in Lendinara reaches its maximum production capacity. The Cavallari family, led first by Antonio, then by Valentino and Pier Massimo, finds the right solution to respond to the growing demands of the market.
In 2003, the company inaugurated the new production plant in Arcole, a state-of-the-art, intelligently designed plant that not only caters to the professional market but also to the needs of the large food industry, with two loading tunnels for bulk flour destined for tanker trucks.
Certifications
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Cleaning
and soaking
However, if the grain is compliant, it is taken to the unloading pits and a long cleaning process begins using a series of specific tools to eliminate all foreign bodies: separator magnet, stone remover, tatara, drier, brush. Immediately afterwards, we move on to the soaking, a delicate and complex stage involving specific tools. Two alternating soaking stages are followed by a resting stage in the conditioning cells.
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The stages
of grinding
The highlight in the life of the mill consists of several alternating stages of milling and sieving. The grain passes through roller mills and is then pneumatically conveyed to “plansichters”, large sieves that separate flour and fibre according to grain size. Our plant completely separates the flour and bran in 24 steps. Over a 24-hour period, our mill’s grinding capacity reaches 400 tonnes of flour, equivalent to 2.8 million round pizzas and 480 million kilograms of bread.
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Storage
The various basic flours obtained by grinding the individual wheat varieties are deposited in homogenisation cells and then transferred to large storage containers. Our flour storage capacities reach 5,000 tonnes divided into 44 cells, 14 directly connected to our mixer. Wheat storage, on the other hand, totals 24,000 tonnes, divided into 24 silos. Not bad, is it?
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Bulk loading
and bagging
Flours can be packaged in 25 and 50 kg sacks, in big bags from 500 to 1,500 kg, or loaded loose directly into the tanker. Our loading docks have a capacity of 1,000 kilograms per minute while the bagging line can pack 30 pallets of 40 bags per hour/day!
Fondazione
Città della Speranza
Padova
For years the flagship of research to fight diseases in children, through a very articulated activity:
• Every year it invests 750 thousand euros in advanced diagnostics financing the Pediatric Oncohematology Clinic of the Hospital – University of Padua.
• Assistance to young patients and families, also with a psycho-oncology service
• Scientific dissemination
Abeo
ODV
Verona
ABEO is the reference association for the Pediatric Oncology Department of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Verona, for which it carries out fundraising and support for families of children suffering from cancer and leukemia. Since 1993 ABEO has been taking care of hemopathic and oncological children in a targeted way, promoting initiatives in terms of prevention, the treatment path in hospital and socialization and supporting their families from a moral and material point of view .
Ulss8 Berica
Equipe Arca
Vicenza
The specialist teams in the field of sexual abuse and serious mistreatment of children/adolescents/minors, to which ARCA belongs, respond to precise considerations and assessments that took place in the Veneto Region within a process concerning the protection, care and safeguarding of minors.
To support the activities of the Equipe, our company has purchased furniture, technological equipment and games for the day care centre.
Peter Pan Group – Comunità Educativa Volta Pagina – Rovigo
The objective of the Cooperative is to propose and produce services aimed at minors, the disabled, the elderly and their families which respond to the effective needs of the territory in which it is found to act and operate.
In particular, the Volta pagina educational community offers an educational-welfare service in a residential community, as required by the Regional Law 22/02, temporarily welcoming minors from 11 to 18 years old in cases where the family unit is unable or incapable of fulfilling its task.
Duchenne
Parent Project
Sezione di Rovigo
DPP is an association of patients and parents with children with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy. Since 1996, DPP has been working to improve the treatment, quality of life and long-term prospects of our children and young people through research, education, training and awareness.
Chirurgo
e Bambino ODV
Ferrara
The first Ferrarese projects aimed at creating surgical solidarity programs for children in countries with limited resources were born in the 90s at the Arcispedale S. Anne of Ferrara. The fundamental statutory objectives, which perhaps best express the association’s mission, can be summarized as follows:
a) improve the state of health in poor countries, in the belief that health is not a consumer good, but a universal human right for which access to health services cannot be a privilege;
b) promoting a positive and supportive attitude towards children , especially those in need of surgical care.
c) provide support for education and training.
In recent years, our company has supported the Pediatric Surgery Department in Bor, Guinea Bissau.
UNIBO – DIMES
Department of Specialist, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine – Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
Donation for the research activity of Prof. Manuela Ferracin, Associate Professor of General Pathology who carries out her research in the field of oncology. The research interests are aimed in particular at the study of microRNA expression alterations in human tumors. He currently focuses his research on the identification of microRNAs/non-coding RNAs to be used as tumor biomarkers and on the use of gene expression signatures for diagnostic and prognostic purposes.
Company Profile
Catalogue
New Bread Lines Brochure
New Bread Lines Brochure
Panero Brochure
Granè Brochure
How the grain is transformed into flour
Datasheet Anima di Pasta
Blend brochure
for frying and batter
Leaflet
the benefits of seeds
Certifications
Certifications
