Tuesday, March 29, 2022
FIMMA + Maderalia 2022 opens its doors and the machinery is back in motion at Feria Valencia. The expected International Technology Biennial, Materials and Components fair for Furniture, Interior Design and Contract Projects, that returns to the fair showcase after four years and a pandemic that, in spite of everything, has spurred the sector in the heat of the ‘boom’ of home reforms.
FIMMA + Maderalia 2022 arrives in a sweet moment for the wood sector and auxiliary industry, What, despite current uncertainties due to lack of supplies or energy cost, became 2021 in the second fastest growing sector in its industrial activity with a 21’6% growth, only behind the textile garment sector and ahead, precisely from the furniture manufacturing sector, according to the statistics of industrial production of the INE contributed from the AIDIMME Technological Institute.
In addition, the sector is also experiencing an expansive phase in terms of the creation of employment, with a growth close to 5% last year with more than 61.000 skilled workers in 2021.
The first appointment in Spain and Eastern Europe 2022
FIMMA + Maderalia is celebrated in 2022 as the first European event in the sector this year after the cancellation and / or postponement of the first months of the year of the German fairs of the sector wood and furniture and acting as a reference in the calendar.
The expectations are very high for FIMMA + Maderalia, which has practically recovered the participation figures of 2018 after saving several postponements due to the pandemic. The fair resurfaces with 402 direct exhibitors and more than 700 brands represented, both machinery and technology as well as boards, Hardware, doors, Soils, varnishes or coatings.
In this sense, from the supply side, the international presence grows to occupy the 31% of exhibitors, six points above foreign exhibitors who participated in 2018. Exhibitors stand out Italian, with 40 signatures present, followed by the broad representation of Portugal with 14 exhibitors followed by France with 13, Germany with 11 or Turkey with 8 direct exhibitors.
In the FIMMA showcase + Maderalia will also have representation signatures from Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland, Poland, San Marino, Switzerland, United Kingdom or United States. The fair, In addition, Be meeting point among the U.S. timber exporters and the European importers, in a forum that comes at a key moment given the shortage in the global supply of wood.
On the demand side, FIMMA + Maderalia has confirmed several missions of international buyers from markets such as Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, France, Italy, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Switzerland, Tunisia or United States. All this framed in various direct actions such as the ‘B2B Encounters’ that will launch the associations Arvet and Cofearfealongside IVACE International or the mission of international prescribers of Cofearfe together with ICEX.
One of the great attractions of this edition of FIMMA + Maderalia will be the recreation of a design hotel that will be carried out by the studio of the famous Valencian designer and interior designer Jose Manuel Ferrero, than with your team of Study{H}Ac has designed several rooms of a state-of-the-art hotel made entirely with the novelties provided by the exhibitors themselves.
News: self-healing boards or fire-extinguishing wood
Sustainability, technology and new materials will be the main protagonists of FIMMA + Maderalia 2022. The thousands of professionals who will visit the event will find a real revolution in sectors such as the Boards, one of the real stars of this fair.
This is the case of some recyclable boards that are manufactured with cellulose fibers from paper mills, distributed by a Spanish firm, or a new line of boards that is self-regenerate to the scratching of its surface; as well as the irruption of panels to cover interiors and that have antibacterial and antiviral properties to sanitize anti-Covid environments 19.
A varnish line that do not slow the spread of fire but have the ability to self-extinguish the flame itself or new materials as a mineral board made from recycled PET acrylic resins and that are used in commercial interior design or large format panels perfect imitation of marble although easier to handle and assemble.
In this edition, the firms of this sector are fully committed to the implementation of digital solutions within the framework of the industry 4.0. Machining centers or increasingly versatile numerical controls that robotize production with use, even, of methods of artificial intelligence. In this area, solutions that allow the complete machining of a door, with milling and insertion of handles and hinges in hardly 30 Seconds.
FIMMA + Maderalia 2022 will continue till Friday April 1, directed exclusively to professionals, who can already purchase their ticket well through the online platform enabled or through the invitations of the exhibitors themselves.
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