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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.

Soft Design - Poliuretano è: at Fuorisalone to communicate the qualities of the expanded flexible polyurethane

Poliuretano è represents an innovative project born with the objective to promote the many qualities of the expanded flexible polyurethane in home and furnishing sector. Every year the project Poliuretano è presents itself to the public of Fuorisalone in Milan with interesting events: this year, from 12 to 17 April in Via Tortona 12, from 10 to 20 o’clock it took place the event “Soft Design - Poliuretano è.“ Soft Design represents a new expositive format, an unpublished formula to communicate the performance qualities of the expanded flexible polyurethane and their possibilities of use. Over the generic look on the polyurethane material, Soft Design offers a particular focus on the specific materials that the leading companies of the sector offer to the industry in order to create innovative applications and to develop new functionalities. “Polyurethane - Marco Pelucchi declared, one of the responsible  people of Poliuretano è - it is the soft material par excellence which has broadly already been used in design and furnishing world. The continuous research in our sector, favoured by the collaboration with the greatest international producers of additives and components, it produced an unbelievable variety of typologies able to favour all designer demands. Each of our business has in its own catalog over hundred polyurethane products with different characteristics. The quality, the duration and the specificity of a session depend first of all on the type of stuffing; polyurethane, with its many variables of density and lifting, it is able to furnish products with specific characteristics “tailor made“ for every necessity. These materials that we introduce here at Soft Design - Pelucchi concludes - they represent a great opportunity for the industrial production world and for the planning and they allow to continually experiment new formalities of application in order to create real innovation.“ Six the expositive areas: semi-finished materials area, basic materials area, products area, testimonial area, consultation area, communication area. In semi-finished materials area Soft Design introduces an ample review of the materials which businesses associated to Poliuretano E' produce: they are polyurethanes with extremely varied characteristics, fruit of great and constant investments in research and development, born for satisfying specific performance demands. These materials represent a great opportunity for the industrial production world and for the planning and they allow to continually experiment new formalities of application to create real innovation. In basic materials area Soft Design also tells the “behind the scenes“ of the expanded polyurethane, through a deep look on the components which are at the base of the material formulation and that they allow to create a vast range of semi-finished products. In products area they are exposed the many possibilities of application of the products in polyurethane that make practically universal these materials, proper for satisfying an endless quantity of functional demands. The testimonial area entertains a series of stories, brief reflections and criticisms on the role of polyurethane in the planning and industrial production, on the way to live with materials and on the different interpretation of the comfort concept: some protagonists of the project, of the industry and of the communication world they propose their personnel point of view. The consultation area is a bridge among different circles, between the world of production and that of research and of planning, while in the communication area it can be found the statements, the images and the details on the principal initiatives. The production holdings of Poliuretano è they are: Cires, Norditalia Resine, Elm, Orsa Foam, Pelma, Sip. The united companies are: Covestro,  Basf, Borsochem, Dow, Huntsman, Shell.