Camira Fabrics

About

Camira, operating as Camira Fabrics and trading within the wider Camira Group, is a British contract textile manufacturer that designs and produces upholstery fabric and other interior textiles for commercial and transport environments. Rather than making furniture, Camira supplies fabric to furniture manufacturers, interior specifiers and transport operators, who apply its materials to seating, panels, screens and related products. Its output spans woven upholstery fabrics, panel and screen fabrics, curtain materials, acoustic textiles and heavy-duty moquette for public transport. The company's modern history begins in 1974, when it was founded as Camborne Fabrics in Huddersfield, in the textile heartland of northern England. The business was established as a fabric supplier holding stock for immediate sale. Over the following decades it grew through acquisitions and ownership changes, eventually adopting the Camira name. The group describes a heritage that reaches back to 1783 through the older mills and textile operations it absorbed, giving it a lineage in British wool and worsted manufacturing that predates the 1974 founding of the present company. Camira is headquartered in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, at a site associated with a former textile mill. The group operates several production and finishing sites in the United Kingdom along with manufacturing in Lithuania, and maintains sales offices across Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. Its products are distributed in dozens of countries, and the company reports annual fabric production measured in millions of metres. Ownership has shifted over the company's history. For a period Camira was a subsidiary of Interface, a manufacturer of modular floor coverings. In 2006 the business became independent again through a management buyout, after which it has remained a privately owned company, held through Camborne Holdings rather than being publicly listed. As a contract textiles producer, Camira places emphasis on natural fibres and recycled content. It manufactures fabrics from pure new wool, which is naturally flame-retardant and is marketed for its durability and appearance, alongside fabrics incorporating recycled polyester, including textile-to-textile recycled materials that reuse post-consumer textile waste. Wool blends combining wool with flax or other natural fibres feature across its ranges, and its sustainability messaging centres on recycled inputs, natural fibres and the longevity of contract-grade cloth. Several Camira fabrics are well known within the commercial interiors trade. Blazer is a 100% pure new wool fabric offered in an extensive palette of colourways. Synergy is a wool-rich upholstery fabric associated with a charitable donation toward a water project for each metre sold. Main Line Flax blends wool and flax for a textured, natural finish, while Yoredale is produced using British wool. These sit alongside an extensive catalogue of collections, many of which carry recycled or part-recycled construction. Camira serves a broad set of markets. In the workplace and office sector its fabrics are applied to task and lounge seating, acoustic panels and screens. In hospitality it supplies fabric for hotel and food-service furniture, and in healthcare and education it offers materials selected for durability and cleanability. A distinct part of the business is transport, where Camira manufactures moquette and other heavy-wear fabrics for bus, coach and rail seating, a sector with specific requirements for abrasion resistance and fire performance. This combination of furniture upholstery and transport textiles, grounded in British wool manufacturing and recycled-fibre production, defines the company's position as a contract textiles and upholstery fabric supplier. As a British textile manufacturer, Camira functions as a component supplier within the furniture and transport industries rather than as a consumer brand.