Avaliação do panorama do setor moveleiro da região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, com ênfase nas certificações florestal e de qualidade

Abstract

This work covered the Rio de Janeiro state, specifically the metropolitan region. Although it is not a furniture pole, it is considered one of the biggest consuming regions of furniture in the country. Another aspect to be considered was that the furniture sector from Rio de Janeiro is going to work, in the next years, in the recovering of the relevance it used to have in the national production of furniture, lost in the last 20 years. The present study aims at characterizing the furniture industries from the region of the Rio de Janeiro metropolis with emphasis in forestry certifications and quality. In order to find the furniture companies from the metropolitan region, a research was made at the syndicates related to the industries of furniture working in the region (Sindicato das Indústrias de Móveis de Madeira do Município do Rio de Janeiro-SIM-RIO e o Sindicato das Indústrias de Construção Civil e do Mobiliário da Baixada Fluminense-SINCOCIMO). The datas of the furniture industries were collected through questionnaires. The furniture industry of the region of Rio de Janeiro is represented, in its majority, by small establishments which work under “made to order” system with not updated machines; thus, carpentries which consider themselves factories. In the furniture universe of the Rio de Janeiro metropolis there is one lowermost group of modern companies with industrial parks that is utilized with specialized machines which present capacity to produce a broad mix of products. The implementation of the forestry certificate in the biggest part of the furniture industries with fabric park in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro is doable, since that the directors provide resources. About the certificate ISO 9001, the furniture industries with fabric parks of the region are not prepared to obtain it, once the biggest part of the prerequisites demanded by rule are not followed. Before thinking about the quality certificate, the furniture establishments need to insert the managing of quality in their production process.