With Colombia among the leading destinations for Brazilian furniture supply exports, the country’s participation reinforces regional production integration and market diversification for components, machinery, and industrial solutions.
From May 12 to 15, 2026, Colombia will become a meeting point for companies, buyers, and professionals connected to the furniture, wood, and manufacturing industries. Interzum Bogotá connects suppliers with manufacturers, specifiers, and decision-makers through an agenda focused on raw materials, components, machinery, technology, processes, and solutions for wood and furniture production.
Brazil’s participation will be led through the components, machinery, and suppliers vertical of the Brazilian Furniture Project, an initiative of ABIMÓVEL (Brazilian Furniture Industry Association) in partnership with ApexBrasil (Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency).
The initiative reinforces a strategic front in the sector’s internationalization by presenting the Latin American market with the Brazilian industry’s ability to operate across different links of the production chain: from manufacturing technology to inputs, from finishes to the components that support the performance, functionality, and competitiveness of furniture.
Focus on Latin America
Colombia ranked as the fourth-largest destination for Brazilian furniture supply exports in the first two months of 2026, accounting for 4.1% of total exports in the segment. This represents a significant increase compared to the same period in 2025, when its share stood at 2.0%.
The figure becomes even more relevant when viewed within a shifting regional map. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Paraguay also appear among the top ten importing markets in the first bimester of 2026. Together, these countries show how Latin America has been expanding its role as an axis of production complementarity, technology circulation, and the reconfiguration of supply networks for the Brazilian industry.
| Países | Jan–Fev / 2024 | Jan–Fev / 2025 | Jan–Fev / 2026 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US$ mil | Part. (%) | US$ mil | Part. (%) | US$ mil | Part. (%) | |
| 1. Estados Unidos ▼ 11,2% | 225.944 | 40,9% | 172.546 | 34,1% | 153.327 | 30,7% |
| 2. Argentina ▲ 26,6% | 59.625 | 10,8% | 64.183 | 12,7% | 81.249 | 16,3% |
| 3. México ▲ 35,7% | 30.726 | 5,6% | 19.828 | 3,9% | 26.911 | 5,4% |
| 4. Colômbia ▲ 99,6% | 7.158 | 1,3% | 10.354 | 2,0% | 20.668 | 4,1% |
| 5. Chile ▼ 39,6% | 32.726 | 5,9% | 32.653 | 6,5% | 19.722 | 4,0% |
| 6. Paraguai ▲ 16,4% | 21.609 | 3,9% | 16.851 | 3,3% | 19.606 | 3,9% |
| 7. Alemanha ▲ 41,9% | 13.473 | 2,4% | 13.722 | 2,7% | 19.480 | 3,9% |
| 8. França ▲ 63,6% | 12.457 | 2,3% | 7.093 | 1,4% | 11.604 | 2,3% |
| 9. Países Baixos (Holanda) ▲ 25,8% | 7.519 | 1,4% | 9.051 | 1,8% | 11.383 | 2,3% |
| 10. Itália ▼ 7,9% | 8.735 | 1,6% | 12.343 | 2,4% | 11.363 | 2,3% |
| Subtotal | 410.973 | 75,9% | 358.624 | 70,9% | 375.312 | 75,2% |
| Outros | 132.996 | 24,1% | 147.266 | 29,1% | 123.514 | 24,8% |
| Total | 552.969 | 100,0% | 505.889 | 100,0% | 498.827 | 100,0% |
This performance comes amid a global environment marked by greater geopolitical sensitivity, shifting trade routes, pressured logistics costs, and a growing search for suppliers located closer to key markets. For the furniture value chain, regional proximity is no longer merely a geographic advantage; it is now part of an industrial competitiveness strategy: reducing uncertainty, shortening lead times, increasing predictability, and strengthening partnerships among manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, and specialized buyers.
For Brazil, Interzum Bogotá represents an opportunity to deepen its presence in a market with productive affinity, geographic proximity, and strong potential for integration. The Brazilian value chain arrives at the event with companies that reflect the diversity of its supplier base, bringing together technical expertise, production capacity, and solutions designed to support the evolution of furniture manufacturing.
By organizing the participation of Brazil’s components, machinery, and supplier industries, the Brazilian Furniture Project broadens the way the country’s furniture chain is presented abroad, moving beyond finished products. The presence in Bogotá highlights a production structure made up of engineering, raw materials, finishes, hardware, technology, equipment, systems, logistics, and market intelligence.
This is the industrial base Brazil will bring to Interzum Bogotá: an integrated, diverse, and well-prepared value chain ready to engage with Latin America’s new growth vectors.
Meet the Brazilian companies exhibiting at Interzum Bogotá 2026:
Brazilian Furniture Project
The Brazilian Furniture Project is an initiative by ABIMÓVEL in partnership with ApexBrasil, created to increase the participation of Brazil's furniture industry and production chain in the international market through a set of strategic actions built on the pillars of sustainability, competitiveness, and design integrated within the industry. Hundreds of companies are part of the project.
In the current cycle, the project's organizers are inviting not only furniture manufacturers and designers, but also component companies and industry suppliers to join Brazilian Furniture, further expanding the reach of Brazilian furniture and reinforcing the competitiveness of the Brazil brand worldwide.
To become part of the project and place your brand at the world's leading furniture industry events, visit:
brazilianfurniture.org.brAbout ABIMÓVEL
The Brazilian Furniture Industry Association (ABIMÓVEL) has spent nearly five decades supporting, developing, and strengthening Brazil's furniture production chain. The institution promotes and leads a positive agenda for the sector, benefiting more than 22,800 companies, which in 2025 generated more than R$ 92.1 billion in business and 287,200 direct jobs, within a production chain that indirectly employs around 1.1 million workers.
Throughout its trajectory, ABIMÓVEL has led a series of programs and actions focused on business, competitiveness, design, sustainability, technical standardization, innovation, and internationalization, promoting initiatives that expand the positioning of Brazilian furniture in both the domestic and global markets. Today, Brazil is the largest furniture producer in Latin America and the seventh largest in the world, a position that reflects the strategic relevance of a production chain that is diverse, capillarized, and closely aligned with market transformations.
abimovel.comAbout ApexBrasil
The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) works to promote Brazilian products and services abroad and attract foreign investment to strategic sectors of the Brazilian economy. To achieve its goals, ApexBrasil carries out a variety of trade promotion initiatives aimed at boosting exports and enhancing the value of Brazilian products and services abroad, such as prospecting and trade missions, business matchmaking rounds, support for the participation of Brazilian companies in major international fairs, and visits by foreign buyers and opinion leaders to learn more about Brazil's productive structure, among other business platforms also designed to strengthen the Brazil brand.
The Agency also works in coordination with public and private stakeholders to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) to Brazil, focusing on strategic sectors that contribute to the competitiveness of Brazilian companies and of the country as a whole.
apexbrasil.com.brFURNITURE: OUR BUSINESS!
Brazilian Furniture Industry Association – ABIMÓVEL
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