Sawmill Business Podcast

Today on the show, we have the pleasure of speaking with Bernardo Urbina, the owner and founder of Costa Rica Sawmill. Bernardo has been a furniture designer for over ten years. He started his studies at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, focusing on industrial design and furniture design. His journey continued to Italy, where he proceeded to do a master's program in industrial design and architecture. After that, he spent three years in the Philippines before moving home to Costa Rica and opening a furniture shop and design studio. Having worked with extremely high-quality products throughout his journey, Bernardo found he was having difficulty sourcing kiln-dried wood in Costa Rica as the standard is air drying. This demand for high quality, kiln-dried lumber and slabs is what drove Bernardo to start milling and drying his own supplies. From there, he realized there was a market for exotic Costa Rican wood that was being sold for ridiculous prices to woodworkers in the United States. Bernardo knew