Last autumn minus tio and three other Malmö based furniture producers formed Öresund Furniture Association. The main aim of the organisation is to promote local furniture industry in an international market. ÖFA will increase contact and co-operation between member companies and various activities such as exhibitions, seminars and workshops will boost the furniture awareness as a whole in the region.
Founding companies are minus tio, Green Furniture Sweden, Morphos and RVW. The organisation welcomes more companies, Swedish as well as Danish, to join.
The first event will be held at Form/Design Center in Malmö, Sweden. The organisation and its members will be presented in an exhibition called Bits and Pieces, Masses and Voids, referring to the physical challanges of combining design and manufacturing of furniture. State of the art furniture and real life exploded views will be showed in a festive setting.
Grand opening with press preview is on the 20th of January and the exhibtion is open until the 20th of February 2011.