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Hardware for furniture, upholstery, kitchen, coatings and furnishing systems.

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.

On 23 October the State Secretary of the Ministry of Education Gabriele Toccafondi has visited Educational Pole of Wooden Furniture in Lentate sul Seveso. The meeting has been the opportunity to compare the State Secretary and the students of the Pole and a meaningful representation of local companies. “ Work is learned by staying inside the companies. You learn by doing. This is the bet and at the same time the great strength of our ITS, Gabriele Toccafondi affirmed. When school and job talk, there is a true contamination, and the results are: the enthusiasm of young people, the desire to make school, the position of the entrepreneurs who speak of their interns as if they were already their employees. We are working because close to the knowledge, it can grow the know how to do.“ Near the Pole of Lentate it is possible to enroll in the path of Superior Technician, a training arrangement professional formation that is showing an elevated effectiveness in the working integration of young people. In this regard the State Secretary  announced the choice of the Ministry to favoring the institutes that are able to offer greater effectiveness of intervention: “no more windfall funds, for this year 30% of the national and regional resources intended for the ITS it will be given on  reward proportion.“ Other important matter addressed at the visit, it is the apprenticeship. From November, only case in Italy, a whole class of students of this basic form of training of the Pole of Lentate it will be inserted for one year in apprenticeship of first level inside some important local companies. The State Secretary Toccafondi has declared that the companies that will accept the challenge of the first level apprenticeship for the obtainment of the professional qualification they will enjoy of an important tax exemption.