At PITESA we have been turning experience into innovation for decades. Our history stems from a passion for optimising farm resources and offering sustainable solutions for animal feed. Through research and continuous improvement, we have turned such a traditional product as cereal straw into a feed with high nutritional value, efficient and environmentally friendly.
About Pitesa
Don Teodoro Casado, founder and main shareholder of PITESA, began his career in the animal feed sector at the beginning of the 1960s, when he built his first compound feed factory, PIENSOS TECA, in Zamarramala (Segovia).
In 1975 it finished building its second plant in Trujillo (Cáceres), another compound feed factory for animal feed, specialising mainly in ruminants, although over the years it also specialised in other species (Iberian pigs, poultry, etc.).
Due to his extensive experience in the ruminant feed sector, he was aware of the lack of DIGESTIBLE FIBRE on the market, necessary for animal feed, especially for ruminants, but also for monogastric animals, and in 1986 he started the PITESA project in Tordesillas (Valladolid).
At PITESA, several granulation tests were carried out with different forages and additives, and after carrying out several analytical tests and observing the animals' ingestion behaviour, it was found that cereal straw (barley and wheat), hydrolysed with NaOH, was the product that provided the most digestible FIBRAN for the animals, as shown in the main veterinary studies on animal feed.
PITESA currently has a production capacity of 220 tonnes per day, but we are still growing and trying to improve.
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Sector benchmarks
After 30 years of activity, we have grown and strengthened our position to become a benchmark company in the sector. Our area of activity covers both the national and international markets. And always keeping the local area in mind.
Our main objective is to achieve the full satisfaction of our customers through a personalised service and an offer of high quality products and services. We are certain that without the support of our customers and without the daily effort of the human team that makes up this company, we would not have reached the position of leadership in which we find ourselves today and of which we are so proud.
Our Values
PITESA is a company dedicated to the manufacture of hydrolysed straw, maize drying, selection and marketing of cereals and distribution of maize seeds. PITESA approaches the Quality Management System as a way of organising its business life, basing it on basic pillars such as the quality of its service, the continuous improvement of the effectiveness of the Quality Management System and customer satisfaction.
For this reason, the Management declares the Quality Management System as a strategic and priority objective, finding its foundations and commitments.
QUALITY is an aspect in the quest to stay in a competitive position in the market.
Stakeholder satisfaction
QUALITY is oriented towards the satisfaction of our interested parties (customers, staff, suppliers, etc.) through the commitment of the entire organisation to comply with the needs and requirements set by them, as well as with legal and regulatory requirements, being the responsibility of ALL the members of the company, starting with the management itself.
Improvement plan
QUALITY is based on a continuous improvement plan both in the execution of the service and in the efficiency of the Quality Management System, in which PREVENTING errors is a fundamental aspect.
QUALITY directs us to pay maximum attention to technological evolution and to the possible improvements that new technologies make available to us.
QUALITY requires the participation and collaboration of EVERYONE, so it is essential to take into account motivation, training and communication.