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Furnishing Idea is the portal dedicated to the furniture and furnishing industry, designed to bring together different professionals such as architects, designers, carpenters, furniture makers and manufacturers active in the furniture market who represent the reference point in terms of innovation and quality of the product offered. On the other hand, the portal aims to provide a valid information service focused on products, projects, events and fairs and everything that revolves around the world of components, semi-finished products and accessories for the furniture industry.

 

The portal is divided into different sections where you can explore the different products according to different categories, get in touch with manufacturers, download catalogues to keep up with industry trends and watch videos of interviews with the best professionals and manufacturers.

 

In the articles section you can find all the information about the most innovative product technologies, such as furniture materials, furniture accessories and systems, furniture machinery, furniture hardware, manufactured by manufacturers with a solid experience in the field. In the companies section there is an overview of the manufacturers registered on our portal, divided by product category, where you can contact us for any request. Our portal also has a special catalogues section to allow professionals and operators in the sector to view in a practical way all the catalogues relating to the various products (furniture hardware, upholstery materials, furniture paints, etc.). In addition, to allow easy consultation of the products, our portal has reserved a product section, organized by categories, where you can find out about the technical characteristics, materials and functionality of each product. The video section, on the other hand, presents numerous video interviews given by professionals and manufacturers that report news, insights and informative content on the best technologies in the sector.

 

In addition, to keep you constantly informed you can also consult our Journal section which contains all the Furnishing Idea magazines dedicated to the furniture and furnishing industry, such as the edition dedicated to Sicam or Interzum, two of the most important trade fairs in the sector. The magazines can be consulted from the portal or easily downloadable in pdf format.

 

Thanks to the trust placed in us by many manufacturers, our portal is now recognized both nationally and internationally. In fact, there are already many internationally recognized and established companies in the sector, including the AIPEF group (Italian Flexible Expanded Polyurethanes Companies) which promotes scientific information on the use of flexible polyurethane foam in the sectors in which it is used.

FederlegnoArredo: new professionals for the digital and green transition

The wood-furniture sector records more than positive results (in 2021 it exceeded the pre-Covid turnover values) and the export of Made in Italy continues to grow. However FederlegnoArredo reveals that 15 thousand professionals are missing to keep up with the surge in demand, especially skilled workers and skilled craftsmen in the processing of wood and other materials for furnishings.

 

Eleven new professional figures


Sales and marketing manager, industrial production manager, purchasing manager, machinery maintenance manager; designer; cabinetmaker / carpenter; machine tool modeler; upholsterer; woodworking machinery manager; furniture assembly worker; workers and workers. These are the eleven professional figures who, within the wood-furniture supply chain, will be most called upon to interpret, thanks to new skills and attitudes, the ecological and digital transition that companies will have to implement.

Precisely to accompany companies in the research and training of figures suitable for the ecological and digital transition, FederlegnoArredo joined, together with other European associations in the sector, the "Sawyer - Impact of the double transition on the wood-furniture industry" project promoted by the Commission EU which analyzed the impacts of the double green and digital transition on the wood-furniture sector at European level.

"The project - comments Angelo Luigi Marchetti, president of Assolegno and delegate for training at FederlegnoArredo - explains in detail how 11 professionals in our sector are called to evolve and it is clear how much environmental and digital skills will be the basis of the workforce of a tomorrow that already knocks on the doors. As a Federation - Marchetti reiterates - we are trying to anticipate the new needs of businesses, so as to also stimulate the training chain to develop courses suited to the challenges underway and projects like this, serve precisely to focus the objectives and tools necessary for their achievement ".
 

From school-work alternation to school-work alliance

As regards the problem of training, this arises on two levels: on the one hand, to adequately train young people and, on the other, to update the skills of those who already work.

For Barbara Minetto, Vice President Assarredo with responsibility for training, "Our sector is suffering from the widespread prejudice that working with wood or producing furniture belongs only to the sphere of craftsmanship and manual work. This is not the case: there are many companies that are extremely innovative and technologically advanced. The fascination of this industry lies precisely in the ability to combine traditional crafts with the use of advanced machinery".

Institutions too must play their part. "It is time to move from what until now we have called school-work alternation to a real school-work alliance - explains Barbara Minetto.

The wood-furniture sector can also count on valid experiences such as the ITS Rosario Messina Foundation in Lentate sul Seveso, the ITS wood-furniture sector in Pesaro and the new Innovation Platform in Friuli Venezia Giulia.

The Sawyer project aims to ensure that theory and practice, training and business are both interpreters of change. The news according to which a strengthening of the higher technical institutes is foreseen in the context of the PNRR, orienting them more and more towards the labor market, goes exactly in this direction, as well as the idea of ​​entrusting their leadership to entrepreneurial figures and issuing tenders for the digital and technological modernization of laboratories.

In the photo: students of the LegnoArredo training center of the ITS Rosario Messina Foundation

Sustainability and ecological transition: the themes at the center of the Salone del Mobile.Milano

Announced membership in the UN Global Compact to help build a "healthy" and responsible society
Category: Fairs
Publication date: 13/06/2022

Sensorial Surface Design: the new Master of the Politecnico di Milano on the perceptive and technical aspects of surfaces

The objective is the training of professionals able to manage the theoretical, technical and practical aspects related to color, materials and surface finishes
Category: Economy, News and Fairs
Publication date: 31/05/2022

Circular economy: EU proposals on the theme of circularity and eco-design

Sustainable Products Initiative published as part of the Circular Economy package
Category: Industry news
Publication date: 04/04/2022

FederlegnoArredo preliminary results: the wood-furniture supply chain closes 2021 at + 14.1% on 2019

Expensive raw materials, energy and the Russian crisis jeopardize the recovery
Category: Economy and marketing
Publication date: 02/03/2022

High cost of energy: strong impact also on the companies of the sector

Unionplast, FederlegnoArredo and Confindustria ask for urgent measures to the Government
Category: Economy, News and Fairs
Publication date: 01/02/2022

Sustainability: from FederlegnoArredo a decalogue to win the green challenge

Italian wood-furniture in the ecological transition: this is the theme of the survey presented at the annual meeting of the Federation
Category: Economy and marketing
Publication date: 11/11/2021

Lectra signs memorandum of understanding to acquire Gerber Technology

French company targets acquisition to enhance its Industry 4.0 technology offering
Category: Cutting systems and software for the padding industry
Publication date: 16/02/2021
Company: Lectra Italia

Designing sustainability: the future of Italian furniture according to FSC Italia

FSC certification is a tool to guarantee the sustainable origin of wood and a communication topic for companies in the sector.
Category: Industry news
Publication date: 19/10/2020

wood-furnishing sector and Covid-19 emergency : the call to reopen Made in Italy

The Federlegno-Arredo manifesto and the appeal of some leading companies in the design sector
Category: Industry news
Publication date: 14/04/2020

Catas Academy: the calendar of courses and seminars 2020 has been defined.

Address topical issues of great interest to the wood-furniture sector
Category: Trade associations
Publication date: 03/01/2020