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31. 05. 2018

Upholstered furniture for San Francisco

ATTENTION: from January 1, 2019, some new regulations regarding the sale of upholstered furniture in the City and County of San Francisco will come into force.

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01. 08. 2018

November 2018 - January 2019: New standards just published

Find here the list of standards published by UNI in the period November 2018 - January 2019.

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24. 04. 2018

Which requirements for wood flooring surfaces?

We consider again the topic of the performance of wood-based flooring surfaces trying to clarify some issues.

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20. 02. 2018

New equipment for corrosion test

A humidostatic corrosion chamber to carry out the EN 15570 test.

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20. 02. 2018

Emissions and new CAMs for building

The Decree of the Ministry of the Environment of 11.10.2017 approving the CAMs and the emission limits from the materials for wood furniture.

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17. 01. 2018

Designing furniture for all in Italy

An important news from the Italian standardization.

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17. 01. 2018

News from the fire reaction

Some fresh circulars from the Italian Home Office.

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25. 10. 2017

Minimum Environmental Criteria (CAM)

With the new Code of Contract GPP is no longer a voluntary instrument but has become compulsory, and the Decree of 11 January 2017 issued a new technical document for the furnishing sector which contains the "minimum environmental criteria" (CAMs) for public supply of furnishings for all uses.

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26. 10. 2017

School buildings: The new Italian fire prevention decree

The legislative news in Italy about fire reaction for school activities.

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26. 10. 2017

The safety and durability of office furniture

Contents and news about UNI EN 527-2: 2016 "Office furniture - Work tables - Part 2: Safety, strength and durability requirements".

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25. 09. 2017

Fire prevention: new regulation for the city of San Francisco

San Francisco bans the sale of upholstered furniture containing flame-retardant chemicals.

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27. 09. 2017

Nurseries: fire reaction for upholstered products

D.M. 16-07-2014 "Technical regulation of fire prevention for the design, construction and operation of nurseries": the Italian Home Office provided the clarifications that CATAS requested in November 2014.