Tradition and innovation with respect for the environment
The story of Severino Becagli began in a small shop in Florence, where a passion for Tuscan food culture was passed down for more than a century. The family's values and expertise were preserved all the way to the Tenuta San Lorenzo estate in Grosseto.
Here, in perfect harmony with land that has always been devoted to agriculture, the Becagli family brought tradition and innovation together to create the “Spirulina Project”: the food of the future, with roots in our planet's most ancient history.
Our personal commitment is your guarantee
Choosing Severino Becagli as the company name means putting our own name behind what we do. It reflects our personal commitment to achieving the highest product quality, preserving the authenticity of our region and its traditions while always looking to the future.
Our strictly Italian supply chain and constant monitoring of every stage of production ensure the highest quality, creating spirulina that is exclusively and proudly organic, environmentally friendly and 100% Made in Tuscany.
Responsible spirulina production: benefits for the environment too
Producing spirulina in perfect harmony with the environment is our mission. Spirulina cultivation causes no pollution, soil erosion or groundwater contamination. Compared with other crops and livestock farming, it requires significantly less water and land. Spirulina is also among the organisms with the highest oxygen production: it absorbs large quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere, actively helping to reduce the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming and making the air cleaner.
Here are the environmental benefits of our cultivation in detail:
Lower water consumption: spirulina production drastically reduces water use, requiring just 1/3 as much as soya, 1/5 as much as maize and 1/50 as much as beef.
No exploitation of the soil: growing spirulina makes remarkably efficient use of space. For the same yield, it requires 20 times less land than soya, 40 times less than maize and 200 times less than beef.
Our values
For the Becagli family, spirulina cultivation rests on three essential pillars:
Quality: a constant, transparent commitment to those who choose our company and our organic spirulina.
Innovation: an ongoing journey of research and development, always guided by tradition and our Tuscan roots.
Respect: protecting the environment is at the heart of our philosophy; Spirulina Becagli is a highly sustainable, zero-impact crop.
Spirulina production facilities: the location
Spirulina Becagli's production facilities are located on the Tenuta San Lorenzo estate in Grosseto, one of the area's most historic and evocative agricultural properties. Its buildings retain the beauty of rural simplicity while incorporating the most advanced technology for spirulina cultivation.
This historic building, dating from the early 1900s, is the technological heart of the facility. Its exterior has been carefully restored in keeping with the original architecture, using traditional bricks from the old Porciatti kiln in Grosseto.
Inside is a state-of-the-art structure: a building within a building, designed to provide environments with extremely high hygiene and health standards. These include two cleanrooms for filtering and drying spirulina, with controlled temperature and humidity and HEPA filters to ensure ISO 8 cleanliness.
The entire process, from cultivation and harvesting to final processing, is monitored and managed in real time by a centralised automated system.
The facility also has an in-house analytical laboratory, where starter cultures of spirulina strains are maintained and preserved, and regular chemical and microbiological checks are carried out on the greenhouse cultures.
Growing spirulina: the cultivation ponds
Spirulina Becagli grows in open ponds known as raceway ponds inside automated greenhouses. This structure enables ideal control of growing conditions, protecting the spirulina from external contaminants that could compromise its quality.
Severino Becagli's raceway ponds are designed according to precise hydrodynamic principles, with a specific shape intended to minimise sedimentation areas.
Harvesting is fully automated, without any contact with staff: a pumping system transfers spirulina-rich water from the greenhouse directly to the filtration room in the adjoining building. Here, a vibrating sieve separates the spirulina from the water, which is immediately returned to the greenhouses. The spirulina then enters the drying rooms for gentle drying at 40 °C.
This is how our 100% Made in Tuscany organic spirulina is produced!
Contact us
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Severino Becagli SRL
SOCIETÀ AGRICOLA CON SOCIO UNICO
P.IVA: 01584930539
Via Aurelia Antica 50, 58100, Grosseto -
mail: info@severinobecagli.it
infoline: +39 055 0464463
punto vendita: +39 0564 1886882 -
CCIAA: Grosseto 01584930539
REA: GR-137255
