Il Italian furniture design it is a crucial sector for our economy. This was stated by the president of Assolombarda, Alessandro Spada, al Furniture expo. “I like to remind you that one fifth of the local units and workers in the sector in Italy are concentrated in our region. It is a system that generates as much as 30% in terms of exports of the sector at a national level”, Spada said, adding that “in the Monza and Brianza area, Italian furniture design represents one of the most deeply rooted sectors: with almost 2 local units that employ 13 workers, in the province it accounts for over a fifth (22%) of the total regional sector in terms of local units and over a quarter (24-27%) in terms of workers and exports. An excellence that then finds an outlet on a global level: in China (10% of the total exports of the sector at the provincial level), France (9%) and Germany (9%)”.
Returning to talk about the event in presence after two years of forced stop, the number one of Assolombarda underlined that it is "an extraordinary showcase for many local companies that promote Italian excellence in the world". And that “the unchanged vitality of this great global exhibition demonstrates how much the design laboratory of Milano and Lombardia grew up in an environment that is increasingly sensitive to the green economy and the issue of involving the new generations".
For the future? The hope of the president is that this edition of the Salone, the 60th edition, will once again favor theinternationalization of Italian companies, increasing the attractiveness of the territory in a delicate phase characterized by the recovery after two years of Covid but also in light of the conflict in Ukraine and its economic repercussions.
