• It is a sin for furniture makers not to take advantage of the future financial and credit support
• Reduction of employees and salaries is expected
• About the revised submission rules information about labour activity in electronic form
• Volodymyr Patis gave an interview Polish industry publication.
• No web configurator you can’t do without furniture in electronic trade

About what happened over the past week in Ukraine and the world and what is relevant and interesting for the furniture maker, read in our digests:

1. As part of the Recovery Plan of Ukraine is the planned creation National Development Bank. Create him plan on the basis of one of the existing banks _ The plan envisages the creation of the National Fund for Structural Transformation of the Economy for financial and credit support for the creation of new high-performance industries or the modernization of existing industries in the manufacturing sector of industry.

The woodworking industry, and the furniture industry, in particular, should also try to use the help of the future fund.

2. Managers of Ukrainian enterprises expect that in the next 12 months they will have to reduce the number of their employees due to the situation that has arisen due to the war. Salaries at the same time will be frozen or slightly will grow against the background of 20% inflation.

Got worse and expectation growth costs for one employee the work of a scholar in the next 12 months. In particular: expect that salary will increase, 32.4% of respondents; will not change – 52.7%; will decrease by 14.9%.

3. The updated rules for submitting information about the employment of insured persons in electronic form – information about the place of work, qualifications, incentives, and termination of employment relations – entered into force. It is noted that information about labour activity employees served once. Repetitive granting information is necessary only once and correction before submitting inaccurate data.

4. In the July issue of the monthly magazine of Polish furniture makers ” BIZNES furniture _ pl » the conversation of Polish journalist Diana Nachylo with the president of the Ukrainian Association of Furniture Manufacturers Volodymyr Patis (with his beautiful portrait in an embroidered shirt on the title page) was published. A representative of the Polish industry publication visited the national stand of Ukraine at the exhibition fair ” MEBLE POLAND » in Poznań, which took place in May, where she talked with the president of UAFM while noting that ” for” MEBLE POLSKA » May was a new discovery in the spirit of solidarity with Ukraine: we always remember the price that Ukraine pays for freedom.” We invite you to read the article by the link.

5. More and more furniture manufacturers are looking for new forms and opportunities to sell their products. The Internet has become one such unlimited opportunity. When manufacturers decide to resort to e-commerce, the biggest obstacle for them is the successful presentation of products and their possible configuration. The Variantic system will come to the rescue.

This is a product of the company TopSolution Integration, known primarily for TopSolid furniture design software Wood CAD/CAM, which is used by more than 450 companies.

Variantic is essentially a platform for building web configurators. Enables you to create an environment that allows you to display and customize 3D objects in real-time. The user can adapt any piece of furniture to his needs by changing its dimensions (length, width, height), colour, the appearance of handles, etc.