The first “Catas Point” is born in Pesaro, a reference information point for all the manufacturers operating in the world of wood-furniture and located in the Marche region which is undoubtedly one of the most important area in Italy for the furniture production and home for many of the brands and companies that keep up the “made in Italy” flag all over the world. Catas, the leading European testing laboratory for the wood-furniture sector, has decided to be closer to the companies operating in this region and in the surrounding ones by providing them with a reference point that makes it even easier to take advantage of the experience and expertise of the laboratory which – fifty years after its birth in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and twenty-five years after landing in Brianza, in Lissone (Monza Brianza) – is now present in another major Italian furniture hub.
“A decision made possible thanks to the partnership with Manifaktura, a start-up founded in Pesaro by Francesco Balducci and Alessandra Cecchini, innovation managers who have a long experience, at national and international level, in the furniture sector and who have always been close to the experience and activities of Catas”, Franco Bulian, director of the laboratory, commented. “Their competence, their experience and their proximity to many companies with which we have been collaborating for many years will allow us to be even more effective as well as to make our skills available to all those who can need it”.
“We are proud to have the chance to cooperate even more strongly and directly with an important institution as Catas is”, Alessandra Cecchini and Francesco Balducci added. “Our experience in the sector of testing, certification and business consultancy has allowed us to get to know very well the companies of the various furniture districts of the Marche and the neighboring regions. We are confident that the opportunity to provide a direct access to the services of absolute excellence that Catas offers, through the “Catas Point” in Pesaro, will create new opportunities for the development and growth of this important industrial area”.
The Pesaro “Catas Point” information offer will refer to several services: from laboratory tests to assistance for the technical standards application, from the prestigious “Catas Quality Award” and “Made in Italy by Catas” product certifications to the increasingly requested tests on emissions. From coating systems to the surfaces for playgrounds, passing from reaction to fire tests; from high-level training opportunities for company staff and the organization of events and technical meetings to assessments and declarations of conformity on the subject of “GPP-Furniture”; from investigations into product defects up to the “Risk Assessment” of furniture, including electrified ones, or applied research on products and materials under development.
