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120 years of history, five generations united by a
single passion, wood.
In the book La Lombardia dei contadini,(Lombardy
farmers,) by Paul Scheuermeier,can be read that the authors of the book,
in the days in which they lived on the tableland of Borno, in mid Camonica
Valley, identified as a guide and informer Pietro Poma, born in
1871, a sawyer from the age of 7, known by the people of this mountain
borough as an excellent worker and later as a benevolent employer towards
his staff.
His son, also Pietro Poma, was born in 1901 and fathered 13
children. He.too, worked as a sawyer in Borno, and for a short period in
Darfo Boario Terme, in the lower valley, in a saw-mill, where as a result
of a Second World War bombing,he lost his house. He therefore returned to
Borno where he lived for the rest of his life.
In 1963, Palmiro Poma, (born 1933), son of Pietro Poma, moved to
Cividate Camuno, in Mid Camonica Valley, and bought a saw-mill with two of
his brothers; the year after he gave up his share to another of his
brothers and returned to his beloved Borno, working for his brothers as an
ordinary employee for several years.
The refounded saw-mill in Cividate Camuno was called Poma Brothers,
and from 1964 until the end of the 1970s was continually enlarged and
modernised, until it became one of the biggest saw-mills in Camonica
Valley. At the beginning of the 1980s, various unfortunate events brought
the Poma Brothers to closure, thus destroying a lifetime of work
and sacrifices, but they weren’t forgotten by the people and clients who
knew and respected them for their honesty, and their ability and
professionality in carrying out their work.
In 1977 Poma Palmiro opened a new saw-mill in Borno, which over the
years has always worked to improve the professionality and rapidity of its
service. Here, Piergiuseppe Poma, born in 1964, son of Palmiro
learnt his trade, and in 1992 he started up Legno Camuna,
specializing in the construction of wooden roofs with the aim of giving
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