Associate Parliamentary Manufacturing Group

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CAMIRA FABRICS

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Camira Fabrics are one of the biggest employers in my constituency with over 180 people at their manufacturing centre at Meltham Mills. In an area with such a rich textile heritage I’m proud that Camira are keeping the tradition going as a recognised leader in environmentally friendly and sustainable designs. They supply fabric for interiors to markets around the world and are a real manufacturing success story. I now look out for their fabrics whenever I’m on a bus, tube train or in an office.

Jason McCartney

  • Camira fly the flag for UK textiles, manufacturing 8 million metres of fabric per year for sale in 80 countries.
  • The company employs 266 UK staff at sites in Huddersfield, Mirfield and Nottingham, operating 66 looms and 25 knitting machines.
  • 60% of the company's £50 million annual turnover is to export markets.
  • You will have sat on Camira fabrics without realising it - in London Underground, on Eurostar trains, in Odeon Cinemas, and in office interiors up and down the land.
  • Other Camira end-user clients include BBC Salford Quays, Google San Francisco, HSBC, HM Prisons, Microsoft India, Nokia China
  • Camira's textile innovations include environmental fabrics made from harvested stinging nettles grown on UK farms
  • Camira's recycled polyester fabrics save 750 tonnes of virgin raw materials every year
  • Camira make recycled fabrics for Starbucks coffee shops from their own hessian coffee sacks

For more information about these products see www.camirafabrics.com

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Conservative

Jason McCartney

Colne Valley