Chambers Fabrics acquires Stantex
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, July 16, 2007
High Point — Chambers Fabrics, one of the last purely domestic mills still supplying the upholstered furniture industry, has acquired all the assets of Stantex, the former chenille manufacturer for Culp Inc.
"We acquired everything except the building as part of our strategy to be as vertical an operation as possible in our chenille business," said Ray Chambers, president of Chamber Fabrics.
He said he believes that vertical integration is key to surviving in the current business climate.
"Because we're vertical, we don't have to worry about sourcing yarn — and what we don't make ourselves we triple source — so we don't have that worry." In addition to making its own chenille yarn, the company does everything from weaving to finishing.
Chambers Fabrics, which was founded by Chambers in 1989 as a converter, began manufacturing in 1996. The company has 114 employees and operates a 150,000-square-foot plant on South Elm Street in High Point, making promotional to midpriced upholstery fabrics.
