In 2022 Assopiuma opens up to social networks, specifically Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin, to spread the association’s key message to consolidate feather padding as high-quality padding, highlighting the values of sustainability, comfort and traceability.

Social media are part of a communication program designed to open up to a constant dialogue with designers, users and upholstery companies, aiming to create a community capable of offering ideas to interior designers and product designers.

Social media are part of a communication program to highlight the values ​​of comfort, sustainability, traceability so to open up to dialogue with designers, users and upholstery companies.

 

Assopiuma recognizes the importance of new communication tools and is committed to a continuous process of updating and disseminating the values ​​upheld since 1981.

Assopiuma is an association created to promote and certify feather and down products according to the highest quality standards. The association incorporates a group of companies that distinguish themselves due to their high quality custom-made manufacturing for the design and fashion industries. 

In addition to a constant commitment to research and innovation, which has made them true forerunners of their industries, these companies also preserve a strong hand-crafted vocation which represents an internationally acknowledged added value.   

A well-balanced combination of traditional know-how and state-of-the-art technology allows them to guarantee valuable, tailor-made, reliable and long-lasting products, with specific attention to sustainability. Well-structured and articulated productions use sophisticated machineries and production plants to create top-of-the-range products that stand out thanks to the choice of noble and natural materials, precision assembly, tailor-made finishes, and a careful choice of details: all this declined according to the specific needs of each customer, in collaboration with designers and architects.

A well-balanced combination of traditional know-how and state-of-the-art technology.

Patented technologies allow Assopiuma’s companies to manufacture custom-made products with the highest precision in the stages of cutting, filling, and the definition of thicknesses, shapes and profiles. Each piece is embellished by hand- and tailor-made processes such as stitching, insertion of webbings, and application of finishes. This leads to endless combinations to satisfy any kind of request.

The long-time commitment of Assopiuma to enhancing and promoting the quality of feather/down paddings is focused on the material’s environmental sustainability. In response to designers’, furniture manufacturers’, and end consumers’ growing demand for products that respect and safeguard the environment, the association has chosen to certify the biodegradability of 100% natural feathers and down by means of strict laboratory tests. Following these tests and a certification of conformity issued by the specialized testing laboratory Hohenstein, Assopiuma has collected scientific data concerning the times and ways of degradation of feathers/down, which is now certified as ‘100% biodegradable’.

The feathers and down that were tested degraded in 5 months. This information is highly relevant since it allows us to calculate the transformation times of the material in composting plants at the end of its life. Feathers and down are turned into nitrogen fertilizer for agriculture and home gardening, thus reintegrating with the biological life cycle without contaminating the soil or groundwater.

Strict laboratory tests certify the biodegradability of 100% natural feathers and down in 5 months.