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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.

ICA Academy: The training school of Group Ica

ICA Academy is the training school of the group ICA created with the goal to valorize its resources through the training and to seek young talents that inhale to become international managers. The group ICA is a private family-owned company. The family Paniccia is still present and operational in the firm, guaranteeing so a continuity in the management, in the maintenance and in the pursuit of the business philosophies, with a specific and continuous attention to the quality and the innovation. Nevertheless the growth of the group and its internationalisation have led to enrich the managerial asset developing and forming a team of collaborators that develop central roles in different managerial and strategic fields. ICA Academy stems from the wish of the third generation of the group ICA, Andrea, Claudio and Lorenzo Paniccia who had the idea and the desire to start a common project, even though engaged in different business areas. The heart of this ambitious sketch is the search of young talents that inhales to become manager and the exploitation of all the resources through the continuous training. The International Career Master is addressed to young graduates who inhale to become manager in international field. It deals with a professional master whose training process foresees the acquisition of an high knowledge of the international processes  and excellent managerial competences through an education that alternates the theoretical and practical training in the classroom to project work realized on real managerial problems. The applicant managers are supported by experienced personnel under the constant supervision of a devoted technical tutor. The goal of the first master of ICA Academy is to meet and to valorize young talents, to spread the business culture and to provide the necessary tools in order to cover managerial and technical-commercial roles in the foreign countries. The International Career Master foresees the assignment of 8 scholarships so as to be able to allow the candidates the association with the whole master and to acquire the necessary training to cover managerial positions or technical-commercial roles. At the end the most deserving candidates will be valued for an assumption in the group ICA for the positions of Country Manager or External Commercial Technician.