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Exhibiting high quality products Romanian furniture manufacturers participate again in the Valencia International Furniture Fair 16 Romanian furniture manufacturers will partake in FIM Valencia 2007 with a national stand through 24th to 29th of September 2007. They will exhibit modern home and garden furniture worked in solid wood. The products will range from dining room to bedroom furniture, upholstery, small furniture, wrought-iron furniture, garden furniture and individual furniture products. There will be glad to meet you in FIM Valencia 2007: S.C. ADISAN S.A. Miercurea Ciuc S.C. ALBANI FOREX S.R.L. Galda de Jos S.C. ALPROM S.A. Piteşti S.C. CAVAL S.A. Cluj-Napoca S.C. FAMOS S.A. Odorheiu Secuiesc S.C. JUSO & GRUP D.E.I. S.R.L. Bucharest S.C. LARIX FOREST S.R.L. Reghin S.C. LOOK FURNITURE DECOR S.R.L. Bucharest S.C. MOBILIERUL S.R.L. Mizil S.C. MOBILENIA S.R.L. Bucharest S.C. MOBTAP ALPROM S.A. Piteşti S.C. LUDUS UPHOLSTERY INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. Târgovişte S.C. QUADRA INVEST S.A. Târgovişte S.C. RIGMOB TRADE S.R.L. BBucharest S.C. SARMEX S.A. Satu Mare S.C. SERICO S.A. Bucharest They will welcome you gladly in Pavillion 2, at level 3 in stand C10!
Classic, traditional and modern - Quality, Variety & Design Romanian furniture manufacturers in High Point International Furniture Market 2007 Through 1-7 October 2007, 8 Romanian furniture manufacturers will exhibit their products in a national stand at High Point International Furniture Market 2007. A large range of classic style, traditional and modern products worked in solid wood will be exhibited on the occasion. Romanian companies will show complete ranges of bedroom and dining room furniture, as well as single pieces of furniture in massive beech, oak and cherry (tables and chairs and small furniture). Modern and classic upholstery as well as wrought-iron furniture will be also on show. Romanian exhibitors at the Fall Market 2007 are mainly furniture companies renown among international furniture buyers for the quality of their products. High Point International Furniture Market 2007 is both a great opportunity and a huge challange for the Romanian furniture manufacturers. High quality and good offers will definitely make the difference. Join us at High Point International Furniture Market 2007 in IHFC building, Main Wing, 5th floor, M507. Meet there your reliable partners: S.C. ALSON COM TRADING S.R.L. Otopeni S.C. CAVAL S.A. Cluj-Napoca S.C. ELVILA S.A. Bucharest S.C. JUSO & GRUP D.E.I. S.R.L. Bucharest S.C. MOBILA BONTAŞ S.R.L. Piatra Neamţ S.C. NORDIC SYSTEMS S.R.L. Bacău S.C. QUADRA INVEST S.A. Târgovişte S.C. SERICO S.A. Bucharest
Changing furniture - The National Design Furniture Contest 2007 The 5th edition of The National Design Furniture Contest 2007 ended as BIFE-TIMB 2007 closed its gates. The winners of this edititon have been: 1st Prize - 'Relax 2007' Sofa , designer Alexandra-Mara Muntean, sponsor and prototype manufacturer: S.C. AGACHE S.R.L. Lugoj 2nd Prize - Multi-functional product 'Valul', designer Adrian Mihai Man, student at 'Transilvania' University Brasov, Faculty of Wood Processing Engineering, sponsor and prototype manufacturer: S.C. MOBILA SOVATA S.A. Sovata 3rd Prize - 'Larousse' Shelves, designer Eng. Carmen Dragomir, sponsor and prototype manufacturer: S.C. TILLIS DESIGN S.R.L. Târgovişte Mention - 'Plywood' Stool, designer Constantin Alupei, student at 'Transilvania' University Brasov, Faculty of Wood Processing Engineering, sponsors and prototype manufacturers:S.C. ALPROM S.A. Piteşti and S.C. NICSTEEL S.R.L. Braşov Special Mention - Program 'Mobius', awarded 'The Best Prototype Presented', designer Eric Wasser,sponsor and prototype manufacturer: S.C. CASA ENRIQUE S.R.L. Bucharest
Awarding ceremony was held at ROMEXPO Exhibition Centre on Saturday, September the 8th, 2007. As an incentive for improving the image of the Romanian furniture sector, the contest has been strictly directed and limited to the participation of the Romanian designers this year. The jury was made of architects, professors teaching at Bucharest University of Architecture and Urbanism 'Ion Mincu' and also at the Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design in the National Arts University from Bucharest, designers, engineers and managers of several company members of APMR. ORGANIZERS: Romanian Furniture Manufacturers Association (APMR), Bucharest University of Architecture and Urbanism "Ion Mincu" (UAUIM) and S.C. ROMEXPO S.A. Bucharest
'Leonardo da Vinci' Programme - Autoqualité Project Autoqualité - Ensuring Total Quality in European Furniture Enterprises by Specially Training Workers in Auto-Quality

Since 2001 a new project called Ensuring Total Quality in European Furniture Enterprises by Specially Training Workers in Auto-quality has been developed within the framework offered by the 'Leonardo da Vinci' Programme, which was launched by the European Union in order to support educational and cultural projects. The project will end in 2006.

The idea of this project came as a consequence of the large experience acquired by some of the partners who had had an impresive background in participating in projects having quality improvement as their main subject. All these former projects have brought our partners to the conclusion that professional training in the quality area need a better approach as using tutors has not covered the special requirements of this domain. As a result, project initiators have proposed a self-perfecting system that will involve the whole staff of an enterprise in a permanent training and self-training process related to all quality aspects.

The basic idea in carrying out the above mentioned system is to strengthen cooperation between the organizations responsible for educational and professional training and their social and economical partners by:

• promoting more effective high-education systems;
• carrying out of an operational system for international training in 'Auto-Quality';
• involving the whole staff of a company in the process of professional training in the framework given by the 'auto-quality' concept - perfecting a method for self-training;
• developing a pedagogical model for training the technical staff in the furniture industry so as to become tutors for their subordinated staff;
• developing a methodology that permits a further development of every employee's competence and also developing a methodology for valuating, certifying and also validating employees' competence;
• making public the results of the project and also extending their application by means of special advisors within the enterprises.

The aim of this project is to strengthen the role of vocational training in the areas such as innovation, improving competitiveness and entrepreneurial spirit. It is not exclusively aimed to Romanian furniture industry, as the partners' intention is to get results that will be transferable to other industries both in the country and abroad.

The main aim of formation is to make operational a system based on self-control that will ensure 'total quality' of a business from raw materials supply to product trading. 'Auto-quality' is a new concept that supposes all people engaged in an activity will find simple solutions in order to stop waste and delays. Among the expected results we can count the following:

• elaborating training programs, a formation and consulting network as well as a methodology to analyze and anticipate the needs for training;
• elaborating a task scheduler for training employees in the auto-quality field;
• elaborating some specific audit instruments, job description for the new jobs, specific dictionaries etc.

Participants in the project:

Education and professional training institutes

• AVENIR FORMATION - a French company that has co-operation relationships with both French and Romanian furniture industries in the vocational training area;
• University 'Politehnica' in Bucharest;
• "Transilvania" University in Brasov, Wood Industrialization High-School;
• Loom Consultoria - a Portuguese company specialized in vocational training and consulting;
• MT Servicios - a Spanish private institution specialized in long distance education and vocational training;
• University of Patras, Greece

The project was awarded the best project in the framework of 'Leonardo da Vinci' Programme in 2004 by the 'Leonardo da Vinci' Agency in France on the occasion of a conference organized in Bordeaux and aimed to highlight the contributions of different European projects at an increased transparency regarding the aquiring of specific professional abilities.

Details available on: www.labsmn.pub.ro/autoqualite

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