Our supply chain
From farm to fork
CLAI's distinctive strength lies precisely in its ability to combine breeding and production in a controlled supply chain. The Cooperative is responsible for following the product throughout the entire process, from feed, to breeding, to processing and putting the products on the market. A controlled supply chain 'from farm to fork', through the expertise, care and passion of people, integrating the value of tradition with the new nutritional needs and lifestyles of the modern consumer.
Davide, Breeder Member
I get up very early in the morning, like my father before me, to raise the best Italian pigs: the heavy pig of the Po Valley. It is the best pig there is, in fact it is part of the PDO supply chain of Parma Ham and San Daniele Ham. Attention to nutrition, animal welfare and good breeding practices have always been our priorities in order to get the best meat to make good salami.
Massimiliano, Meat Plant Manager
Only pigs born and raised in Italy are transformed and processed here. Moreover, here we begin to identify the best meat to make a good salami. We were the first in Italy to adopt robotic systems for salami production, maintaining artisanal processes on separate laboratory areas, thus combining technology with manual skill and expertise.
Rudy, Salami Team Manager
Working as a team allows us to always stay one step ahead in the quest to improve our salamis, thanks also to our permanent collaboration with Universities and Agribusiness Research Centers. Because 'good, beautiful and healthy' are the result of teamwork that allows everyone to always seek the best in terms of taste and quality.
Lorenzo, Salami Quality Control
Every day I check the quality of our salamis, as if my son were to eat them, because the search for quality as a guarantee for the customer and the end consumer has allowed our Cooperative to obtain the most prestigious current Italian and European certifications. Quality is the driving force behind our business, from farm to fork, and it is thanks to this that our salamis are also making a name for themselves in foreign markets.
Marco, CLAI Farm Manager
We directly cultivate 380 hectares of land, so we produce part of the feed for our farms, since a diet made of wholesome and natural plant products helps our breeders obtain excellent pork for the production of our salami. Love for the land also translates into the Cooperative’s commitment to the environment and sustainability: in 2013, CLAI inaugurated the Biogas plant that creates clean energy from the reuse of processing by-products, a plant from which the Cooperative draws all the energy it needs.
Elisa, CLAI Farmer's Butcher Shops
To enter CLAI Farmer's Butcher Shops is to encounter a living, breathing place where so many good products must be ready to be chosen and taken home. For those of us who work here, every moment of the day has its meaning and every role is paramount. Indeed, as women, balancing a demanding job with the activities of being a housewife and mother is not easy. But we love working with people. Every day we have the opportunity to interact with colleagues and a diverse clientele. We do this through our duties: those serving behind the counter, those at the checkout, those in the kitchen. And we do it together, helping each other. We are convinced that 'being a woman' brings added value to our Cooperative, where our feminine nature is able to optimally manage the values of trust and empathy in the relationship with the customer: from the young bride who asks you for advice on the best cut of meat to make a pot roast, to the person who wants a good wine to go with the platter of cold cuts and cheeses. It is precisely the people who represent what gives value to our work and who, upon entering the Butcher Shops in the morning, make us say: today will still be a new experience.
Giovanni, President
Each of our salami is the result of a challenge: to produce goodness by cultivating values and passion. Our enterprise grows only by valuing people and giving everyone a way to do so. This is also how the quality of our salami grows thanks to our capacity for innovation, supported by continuous investment in the evolution of work and product welfare processes. CLAI salami is the passion of three generations of men and women who, with commitment and dedication, carry on the project of their fathers: breeders and workers, members of the Cooperative, protagonists of the entire food supply chain.
Example of supply chain: our cured guanciale (cured meat product prepared from pork jowl or cheeks)
Only 100% Italian meat from CLAI supply chain without preservatives: the main ingredient of Italy's most popular recipes.
