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In this period, exotic wood is the most
popular
choice
among
consumers.
Patrizio Dei Tos starts to travel a lot search-
ing for a good quality product. Nigeria, the
former Zaire, the Ivory Coast, Congo and
Cameroon are the African countries in
which ‘Labor Legno’ is present, importing
wood of very high quality. The company
becomes a reference point for this type of
market.
The closure of export markets for logs
forces the Zarpellon brothers saw mill to
be put up for sale, and the company is
bought by Patrizio Dei Tos in partnership
with his father Lino. ‘Itlas’ is born, acro-
nym of Italparchetti Labor Legno Segati.
To deal with the export closure, the saw
mill’s machinery is moved to Cameroon.
‘Itlas’ focusses its production on pre-
finished floors, which in the early Nine-
ties were a very innovative product for the
market. There do not yet exist any estab-
lished production techniques for this type
of floor, but the company develops the
appropriate production process thanks to
the experience acquired.
The biginning of the new millennium co-
incides with Patrizio Dei Tos liquidating his
partners and the start of the market launch
of the successful three and two-layers
prefinished products such as the “Tavole
del Piave”, “Legni del Doge” and “Assi del
Cansiglio” projects. To these is added the
creation of “Cinque Millimetri”, a wooden
skin for any type of covering or panneling; in
2013 “The Massivi” collection, result of the
precious collaboration between the com-
pany and Mario Casamonti, Archea Studio,
Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas, in 2014
“Progetto Bagno”. At the beginning of 2016
the network of architects widens up thanks
to the collaboration with Mario Botta, Adolfo
Natalini and Pietro Carlo Pellegrini.
Our history, tradition and future
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Non solo sensibilità nei confronti dell’am-
biente e del proprio territorio di apparte-
nenza. Itlas da diversi anni ha scelto
di affiancare le attività sociali della
Fondazione Umberto Veronesi, nata nel
2003 allo scopo di sostenere la ricerca
scientifica attraverso l’erogazione di borse
di ricerca per medici e ricercatori e il soste-
gno a progetti di altissimo profilo. Ne sono
promotori scienziati – tra i quali ben sei
premi Nobel che ne costituiscono il Comi-
tato d’Onore – il cui operato è riconosciuto
a livello internazionale.
Al contempo la Fondazione è attiva anche
nell’ambito della divulgazione scientifica,
affinché i risultati e le scoperte della scien-
za diventino patrimonio di tutti, attraverso
grandi conferenze con relatori interna-
zionali, progetti per le scuole, campagne
di sensibilizzazione e pubblicazioni. Un
progetto ambizioso che, per raggiunge-
re il suo obiettivo, agisce in sinergia con
il mondo della scuola, con le realtà - sia
pubbliche che private - nel campo della
ricerca e con il mondo dell’informazione.
Progettualità e concretezza, passione ed
impegno costante: queste le “parole d’or-
dine” che da sempre rappresentano la
natura e la vocazione del nostro impegno.
Concetti che costituiscono l’identità stes-
sa della Fondazione, grazie ai quali può
contribuire a “produrre” un bene più alto,
la salute ed il benessere per gli altri.
Sensitivity
not
just
towards
the
environment and their own territory – for
many years, Itlas has chosen to join
the social activities of the Umberto
Veronesi Foundation, founded in 2003
with the aim to support scientific research
through the issue of fellowships for doctors
and researchers and the support of very
high-profile projects. Among promoters
are scientists whose work has been
recognised at a global level, including
six Nobel Prize winners who form the
Honours Committee.
At the same time, the Foundation is also
active in the popularisation of science
so that scientific results and discoveries
become everyone’s heritage, through
large
conferences
with
international
spokespeople, projects related to schools,
awareness campaigns and publications.
An ambitious project which, in order to
reach its objective, acts in synergy with the
world of schools, with realities – both public
and private – belonging to the research field
and with the information sphere. Forward-
thinking ability and concreteness, passion
and constant commitment: these are the
keywords which have always represented
the nature and vocation of our activities.
These concepts form the identity of the
Foundation itself, thanks to which it can
contribute in the ‘production’ of a higher
good – the health and wellbeing of others.
Impegno sociale
Social commitment
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In Vittorio Veneto, together with a group
of associates, Lino Dei Tos founds ‘Italpar-
chetti’, a wood flooring company in which
he directly engages his son Patrizio as a
sales representative, strongly believing in
his entrepreneurial ability and encourag-
ing him to start his professional career first
as a representative in the new company
and, later, in a protagonist role, at ‘Labor
Legno’.
Lino Dei Tos purchases a ten thousand
square metre territory in Cordignano, in
the Treviso province, and founds the or-
ganisation “Labor Legno snc Dei Tos Lino
& C.”
Thanks to Patrizio Dei Tos’ experience as
a sales representative for floors, ‘Labor
Legno’ is transformed from a company
which produces rough sawn lumber to
one that produces wood floors.
Still in his twenties, Patrizio Dei Tos man-
ages in just seven years to give ‘Labor
Legno’ a remarkable boost, turning it into
a stock company. Right from the start, the
company looked especially at France to
import wood, which is sawn in Cordignano
in the nearby company belonging to the
Zarpellon brothers, and then carved with
multi-rip saw machines until obtaining the
rough product to be sold to kitchen doors
manufacturers – an activity which is very
popular in the surrounding area, especially
on the other side of the Friuli border, in the
province of Pordenone.
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