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.

Xylexpo 2016: importance to team up, to make system, to collaborate, to work together.

UniCredit Pavilion in Milan entertained last Friday 12th February the press conference of presentation of the next edition of Xylexpo, the biennial world exhibition of technologies and supplies for the furniture and wood industry it will develop at FieraMilano-Rho from next 24th to 28th  May. The interventions of the numerous speakers were all focused on the importance to team up, to collaborate, to work together to reach ambitious aims and to win difficult challenges. Andrea Mattiello of Ice, Agency for the promotion in foreign countries and the internationalisation of the Italian companies, it remembered the long relationship of collaboration of the agency with the Italian builders of technologies for wood, a partnership also celebrated by the recognition of Xylexpo among the thirty reviews of international importance of the Italian fair calendar. Also Paolo Borgio spoke about collaboration, he is manager of FieraMilano events affirming that “for 25 years we have been working side by side, concretely, in order to bring exhibitors and visitors to Milan.  A 360-degree collaboration to overcome these difficult years with success, as it deserves a fair that can boast a high percentage of foreign visitors, besides being show of one of the leader sectors in the Italian industry of instrumental goods.“ Corrado Peraboni, managing director of FieraMilano, he illustrated the effort that FieraMilano is effecting for being always up to the international carat of events like Xylexpo offering services which are suitable to the appointment of the organizers and the exhibitors of the demonstration. Important words and in tuning with the climate of opening and dialogue of the meeting also from Giovanni De Ponti, managing director of FederlegnoArredo and Fair of Furniture, Milan. “The fifty years of Acimall – he claimed -  they are an important objective to celebrate worthily.  Italian technology has given a strong contribution to the success of the Italian furniture and it is no accident that the districts of furniture are the same territories where they are based many car builders and installations for wood. Today it is high time to make new steps together, going besides the fundamental collaboration between the two worlds that we represent, drawing to our long history of collaboration on the fair side - I consider the binomial Xylexpo and Sasmil, the Saloon of components and supplies for furniture - and to the successes that we have gathered together for decades.“ And then he concluded: “We are available, open, ready to discuss new ideas of collaboration, of fair partnership that go to those new circles of which our group is already protagonist: from the Fair of Furniture to the fairs that we organise in foreign countries to reach Made Expo, themes around that we could develop a common construction, to experiment together in a new project path for the development and the satisfaction of needs of our enterprises.“ “The active and concrete collaboration with Ice and FieraMilano – Lorenzo Primultini has finally said, the president of Acimall – they are and they will be always for us precious instruments, as a more and more careful and effective relationship with FederlegnoArredo, the possibility to compare us in order to express those that could be new paths of great interest for everybody: “teaming up“ today it is the key of time of any system; without new collaborations, without new incentives with consolidated reports it is difficult to add value to our experiences.“ The next edition of Xylexpo will be a fair of innovations. From this edition the entry to Xylexpo will be free for the operators who will be recorded in the special section of the site www.xylexpo.com; for all other people there is an entry ticket of 15 euro for a day, 25 euro for the whole period of the fair. This year Xylexpo returns to be a “complete showcase.“ “Today we finally find at Xylexpo all, but really all, the protagonists of the sector - Lorenzo Primultini affirmed satisfied - To today, in fact, the numbers are clear in comparison to the same period of two years ago, with few more than 300 exhibitors, of which a third foreigners, who have already confirmed their share on a surface around the 25 000 meters, approaching already to 26.176 total square meters 2014.“ Other important novelty is the presence of Acimall to the Fair of Furniture. Milan with a stand in pavilion 14 “to testify what contribution technology can give to the quality of the “good way of living“, by making repeatable the beauty with rapid, powerful, flexible solutions, able to make also the most splendid object, the most elegant piece of furniture in range of a great number of possible consumers.“   Primultini concluded his intervention introducing the second edition of XIA-Xylexpo Innovation Awards, prize devoted to the innovation which will see as jurors, academic and world personalities of the formation of sector aimed to choose the most innovative products for the sections “First processing“, “Second processing“ and “Finishing“.   To the manager of Acimall, Dario Corbetta, the assignment to make the point of the economic scenery of sector. “The message is clear, the Italian companies are still strong, active, prepositive, able to attract the attention of customers of every dimension and for any type of product all over the world.“ “2015 - Dario Corbetta underlined – it has been a good year with a production that reached 1.790 million of euro, 7,2 percent more in comparison to 2014. The exports overcome quota a million of euro and they are always the strong point of the Italian technology and the importations which attested to 152 million of euro, 22,5 percent more in comparison to the 124 millions of 2014, for a commercial balance that reaches 1.188 million of Euro (more 5 percent).“ Last passionate intervention is that of Maurizio Riva, co-owner with his brother Davide of Riva1920 in Cantù. The carpenter of Cantù, as it loves to define himself, he has underlined with strength the value of the collaboration. “Only together we can arrive where we want, strength is in joining together!“. They were also present to the press conference with their desks the responsible people of fourteen companies of the sector “Top Exhibitors“ (Salvador, Emc, Giardina Group, Cefla Group, Scm Group, Homag Italia, Biesse Group, Greda, Incomac, Leuco, Costa Levigatrici, Metal World, Imal, Pal). They have chosen to be sponsors of this meeting and to have the opportunity to introduce before everybody else to the invited journalists the novelties that they will propose from 24th  to 28th  May at FieraMilano-Rho.