The Indonesian Ecolabeling Agency (LEI) has set up cooperation with several other institutions to provide the furniture market with products and handicrafts made from wood taken from ecolabeled forests, a spokesman said.
Therefore, LEI as well as people`s forest management groups in Wonogiri district in Central Java and Gunungkidul district in Yogyakarta which already have ecolabel [...]

A number of Indonesian wood and rattan furniture products had been displayed in an international trade fair “Kyrgyztan-2007″ held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzatan, on April 26-30, 2007, the Indonesian Embassy in Tashkent said.
Visitors of the exhibition were impressed to see the Indonesian furniture products which they viewed as exotic and different from those of other countries, [...]

Indonesia`s wooden furniture exports have continued to decline in volume over the past three years although world demand is increasing, Industry Minister Fahmi Idris said here on Wednesday.
Due to the decline in exports, the utility rate of the industry`s capacity had also dropped, the minister said in a written speech read by the director general [...]

Indonesia has one of the largest furniture export industries in the world. Based on Indonesian statistics, Maskayu bulletin estimates that the Indonesian furniture sector comprises more than 3,500 companies with over two million workers. Wooden furniture dominates the furniture sector, accounting for two-thirds of the total furniture exports. The furniture industry is mainly concentrated in [...]

WENDY, of Pandan Indah, is still waiting for a furniture shop near her home to change the door of a television cabinet she bought a few months ago.
She says she ordered the cabinet from the shop last October and it was delivered to her two weeks later.
“The cabinet has a half-wood, half-glass door which was [...]

Tokens of Living is a furniture store, located in Mona Vale on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. It was established in November 2004 by art historian Hélène Manger-Hofhuis and Naval architect Hans Manger. The couple, originally from the Netherlands, source furniture and home wares, antique and modern, from all over Europe.
Hélène and Hans share a passion for [...]

Jaycorp Bhd aims to more than double its annual exports of rubberwood furniture to RM500mil by end-2008 from about RM200mil currently, said executive chairman Tan Sri Majid Khan.
Jaycorp currently commands 5% of the country’s rubberwood furniture export, worth some RM4bil a year.
For year ended July 31, its furniture division registered 23% growth to [...]

The emergence of new suppliers of furniture in the world threatens the market share of Filipino furniture exporters, an industry official said.
Vietnam has overtaken the Philippines as a furniture supplier to the world market, said
Michael Basubas, president of the Cebu Furniture Industry Foundation.
“In 2000, Vietnam was behind us. Now, they’re ahead of us,” Basubas said.

Indonesia’s furniture industry is losing its market share to imported products as it faces increasingly tougher competition on the international market due to the influx of products from other Asian countries, particularly China, which has now become the world’s largest producer.
Sae Tanangga Karim, executive director of the Indonesian Furniture Industry and Handicraft Association (Asmindo) said [...]

A virtual forest of wood samples grows inside Northfield’s Wall/Goldfinger. The 35-year old company creates high-end boardroom tables using veneers made of maple, bamboo, walnut, and several exotic woods. Company president John Wall says, “We do a lot of work for Bank of America, Citigroup, pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, and other big corporations.”
These big companies [...]