Camira is presenting a new Continuing Education Unit (CEU) entitled “Specifying Sustainable Fabrics to Enhance Health and Wellbeing.” The CEU is approved by the Interior Design Continuing Education Council (IDCEC) and it provides a far-ranging overview of the impact of sustainable fabrics and the benefits that wool textiles can bring to internal air quality.
“By specifying wool on your furniture, you can actually enhance the air quality of a work environment,” said Rune Akselberg, Camira’s President for North American and Asian Pacific markets. “Certain fabrics, and especially wool and woolen blends, help absorb VOCs and other pollutants and actually contribute to a healthier workspace.”
The CEU is built around four key learning objectives:
- Exploring negative impacts resulting from using less environmentally friendly fabrics.
- Examining the need for better health and wellness practices in contract interiors and identifying performance standards in an array of fabrics that could contribute to healthier workspaces.
- Understanding how to better recognize and specify more environmentally friendly fabrics for commercial application.
- Surveying the evolution of health and wellness in the work environment and looking at the more recent developments the fabric industry is developing to support healthier building initiatives.
To schedule this CEU, contact Camira’s North American marketing coordinator Bobbie Hejna at Bobbie.Hejna@camirafabrics.com
About Camira:
- Camira designs and manufactures upholstery fabrics for commercial offices, hospitality, government, institutional interiors, healthcare, cinema and auditoria.
- Camira is an independent UK textile company with two manufacturing facilities in England (in Huddersfield and Nottingham) and a mainland European manufacturing plant in Lithuania. The company’s North America operation is in Grand Rapids, MI, where it holds stocked inventory and operates a cut yardage program for rapid distribution throughout North America.
- The company was founded in 1974 as Camborne Fabrics, acquired by U.S. modular flooring company Interface Inc. in 1997, and Camira was launched from a management buy-out in April 2006, taking the company back into independent ownership.
- Camira employs about 650 staff and sells approximately 10 million yards of fabric annually, generating revenues of roughly $100 million.
- The company has been recognized for outstanding product innovation and environmental stewardship, gaining Queen’s Awards for Sustainable Development (2015 and 2010) and Enterprise in Innovation (2005).
- Camira is registered to ISO 9001 (quality standard), ISO 14001 (environmental management) and OSHAS 18001 (health & safety) and OSHAS 18001 (health & safety).
- Camira is trusted, specified and chosen by the world’s top furniture manufacturers, interior specifiers and end-users, including HSBC, Google, Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and Facebook.