Astorino Pasta S.r.l.

A package of Astorino Pasta tells and contains the territoriality, the uniqueness, popular tradition, flavors of the past of Calabria and Italian spirit.

From the beginning, the company philosophy has led Astorino Pasta to pursue the research of quality by selecting the best raw materials available on the market and using advanced technologies.

This has made possible to obtain products with visual, intrinsic and better organoleptic characteristics, in full respect of the traditional characteristics contained in the various regional shape of pasta.

For business development there has been implemented the production of new products.

In particular, a line of organic pasta and a line of nutraceutical and functional pasta have been developed.

The company pursues an eco-sustainable production policy and in 2012 has realized a co-generation environmentally friendly solar plant which has enabled to significantly reduce CO2 emissions into the environment.

The project

Always with a view to corporate development, which takes into account a sustainable eco-development policy, Astorino Pasta has set itself, from the outset, the goal of the production of distinctive elements, referred to the recovery of old varieties of wheat grown in Calabrian territory in the past, with the intention of obtaining semolina for pasta and bread making.

Starting from this idea and contextualizing it from a Biodiversity perspective the pasta factory is part of a Short Chain project, with the aim to obtain zero-kilometre products with better nutritional and organoleptic requirements than conventional productions and guaranteeing the following values:

Social value: as guardian of our tradition and healthy food;

Environmental value: as produced with sustainable methods;

Moral value: used to promote social inclusion, respect for workers' rights and fight against submerged;

Territorial value: respect and care for natural, cultural and typical local resources;

Economic value: economic and remunerative resource.